Our Wild Indians; Thirty-Three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. a Popular Account of Their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Etc. With thrilling adventures and experiences on the great plains and in the Mountains

Octavo,original publisher's gilt decorated brown cloth xxxiv, [blank], 29-653pp. age yellowed pags. Complete with 6 full page chromolithograph plates, 17 full page steel cut illustrations, frontispiece portrait with tissue cover. Occasional toning, light foxing to tissue covers. (Howes D-403) (Graff, 1114) (Rader 1172) Includes an introduction by General Sherman. An exceptionally scarce copy in the publisher's original three quarter leather. Colonel Richard Irving Dodge was an officer in the United States Army. He served as aide-de-camp for General William Tecumseh Sherman and spent most of his career protecting trade routes in the American West. In retirement, he was a prolific author, writing numerous books about his experience in the American west. Those works include: Hunting Grounds of the Great West (1877), The Enlisted Soldier (1886), The Black Hills: A Minute Description of the Routes, Scenery, Soil, Climate, Timber, Gold, Geology, Zoology (1876). His Black Hills journal was published posthumously in 1996. full title: OUR WILD INDIANS:; thirty-three years personal experience among the red men of the great West. A popular account of their social life, religion, habits, traits, customs, exploits, etc. With thrilling adventures and experiences on the great plains and in the mountains of our wide frontier. With an introduction by General Sherman. Fully illustrated with portraits on steel, full page engravings on wood and (6) fine chromo-lithographic plates