DODGE, Richard Irving, 1827-1895. The Plains of the Great West and their inhabitants : being a description of the plains, game, Indians, &c., of the great North American desert, by Richard Irving Dodge, lieut. colonel U.S.A. ; with an introduction by William Blackmore ; illustrated.

Half title: Hunting grounds of the Great West.

New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1877, ©1876.

v, 448 pages, leaves of plates. 1 folded map.

Bound in red gilt pictorial cloth, gilt spine title.


H: 9 W: 6 in. Good, edges and corners rubbed and bumped, spine head and tail slightly cracked, inside front gutter slightly cracked, rear hinge crackers, covers slightly soiled, folder map with some small tears.
With “Eugene F. Sellers / April 12, 1919,” in ink on front free endpaper. With two articles on Custer’s battles [1927], and on the Armistice [1918] laid in.