Item #018751 AB-SA-RA-KA HOME OF THE CROWS: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. With An Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878. Helen B. Carrington.
AB-SA-RA-KA HOME OF THE CROWS: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. With An Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878.
AB-SA-RA-KA HOME OF THE CROWS: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. With An Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878.
AB-SA-RA-KA HOME OF THE CROWS: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. With An Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878.

AB-SA-RA-KA HOME OF THE CROWS: Being the Experience of an Officer's Wife on the Plains. With An Outline of Indian Operations and Conferences from 1865 to 1878.

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1878. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Very good- condition. Item #018751

xx, [13]-383 pages of text including publisher's advertisement. Original binding is moderately rubbed and shelfworn, with a small bump to a bottom corner; protected in archival mylar. Illustrated with two folding maps. The inner front hinge is weakened. A few pages have minor soiling. Howes C175; Field 244: The most valuable portion of the book is that in which she gives the personal narrations of some restored captives, scarcely to be deemed happy in surviving the awful massacre of their families. A previous owner's bookplate on the inside front cover: P.G. Wood U.S. Army. Palmer Gaylord Wood (1843-1915) served in the Civil War as Second (and later First) Lieutenant of the 7th California Volunteer Infantry starting October 28, 1864. He also served in the Spanish American War. Third edition stated on the title page.

Price: $575.00

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