PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PIONEER LIFE ON THE MOUNTAINS AND PLAINS OF THE GREAT WEST

Voorhees, Luke

Verlag: Privately Printed, [Cheyenne, 1920

76,[1]pp., including portrait. Original printed green cloth. Worn at spine ends and corners, joints cracked but holding. Author's signature on front free endpaper. Top edge of text block worn with small vertical tears on a number of pages. Some light foxing in places. Very good. One of only 125 copies in the first edition of this narrative of early Wyoming and the surrounding regions, signed by the author. Voorhees was an early frontiersman of that territory: "His narrative recounts a trip across the Plains to Smoky Hill and the Republican River Country in 1857; trip to Pike's Peak and the Gold Diggings in 1859; Montana in 1863; buffalo hunting; Indians in the Black Hills and Cheyenne Country, 1876- 82; Early Stage Coach Days; the Metz Massacre; early days in Salt Lake; and the organisation of Wyoming Territory" - Soliday. "Contains some information on stage robbers and Slade's killing of Jules Reni" - Adams. Also contains sections on "Indian troubles" and the fate of General Custer. Of particular historical interest is the appendix which begins on page forty-eight and fills the rest of the volume, in which Voorhees describes how his family came to own a number of Lewis and Clark manuscripts and reprints their contents. HOWES V142 "aa." SOLIDAY IV:960. GRAFF 4498. ADAMS SIX-GUNS 2277. FLAKE 9492c. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM57023

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Titel: PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF PIONEER LIFE ON ...
Verlag: Privately Printed, [Cheyenne
Erscheinungsdatum: 1920