Custer g a ludlow william (1 risultati)

Cloth. Condizione: Near fine. First Edition. Quarto, 121pp, [2 maps]. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine. Light wear to boards, some loss of cloth at top of spine. Text block solid, no marginalia. Library stamp on front pastedown endpaper. Complete with a lithographed plate illustrating new fossils and three large fold-out maps. All three maps with some transference, some wear at folds, closed tear to Map #1. The color fold-out map has a short closed tear from incorrect folding, but has bright illustrations. (Howes L558) (Luther, Custer High Spots, 28) Bookplate of Russell Reid on the front pastedown. This copy bears the signature of General Horatio Wright, Chief of Engineers for the U.S. Army, on the title page, dated Oct. 5th, '75." This expedition to the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874 was led by Lieut. Colonel George Armstrong Custer, in charge of the 7th Cavalry. Their mission was to find a suitable location for a fort and investigate the possibility of mining in the region. The claim that gold was found led to a gold rush, which antagonized the Sioux Indians, and eventually led to the Battle of the Little Bighorn in the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877. William Ludlow, the author of this work, was the engineer for the 7th Cavalry. He was accompanied on the expedition by geologist Newton Horace Winchell, who prepared the maps, and naturalist and conservationist George Bird Grinnell. The maps are titled as follows: Map of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills, July and August 1874, with Troops Under Command of Lt. Col. G.A. Custer, 7th Calvary; Map of the Black Hills from a Reconnaissance by Capt. William Ludlow Corps of Engineers; A Geological Map of the Black Hills, by Professor N. H. Winchell, To Accompany the Report of Capt. William Ludlow, U.S. Engineers. First edition of the Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota by William Ludlow, from the library of Gen. Horatio Wright. (illustratore). Signed.…