HOLLIDAY, GEORGE H. On the Plains in '65 . . . Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado

HOLLIDAY, GEORGE H. On the Plains in '65 . . . Twelve Months in the Volunteer Cavalry Service, among the Indians of Nebraska, Colorado, Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana. Illustrations, including a full-page portrait. 8vo, later cloth, a bit soiled, with the original front wrapper bound in; library bookplate on the front pastedown and label on the spine (Library of the Illinois Commandery, M.O.L.L.U.S.). [Wheeling, WV, 1883]

first edition. Scarce post-Civil War narrative of military service with the 6th West Virginia Cavalry, "ordered to the Rocky Mountains to assist in protecting the frontier, guarding the overland stage line, running the mails through to the remote North-west, and in protecting the Government posts along the North Platte river"--Preface. Howes H596; Streeter Sale 1828; Graff 1936.
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