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Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874.
Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874.
  • Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874.
  • Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874 — photograph 2.
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  • Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874 — photograph 7.
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  • Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874 — photograph 9.
  • Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874 — photograph 10.

Report of a Reconnaissance of The Black Hills of Dakota, made in The Summer of 1874

Ludlow, William · Washington

Author
Ludlow, William
Date
1875
Place
Washington
Publisher
Government Printing Office
Language
English
Binding
4to.(9" x 11.5") 121 pp. Full brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips. Head and foot of spine ruffled, rubbed. Upper board with apparent water damage to lower spine area, creating ripples to pastedown and lightly dampstained a couple of inches along the foot of the page, through text block but only visible intermittently. Engraved plate with larger dampstain to lower fifth of plate near spine. Map # 1with small closed tears at folds, Map # 2 similar with thin dampstain to second fold from bottom, Map # 3 (hand-colored) with 7" closed tear with paper tape repair. Overall, an interesting book in very good condition. All plates and maps accounted for.
Category
History & Americana
Record
S.I.8121

4to.(9" x 11.5") 121 pp. Full brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine. Edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with tiny loss to tips. Head and foot of spine ruffled, rubbed. Upper board with apparent water damage to lower spine area, creating ripples to pastedown and lightly dampstained a couple of inches along the foot of the page, through text block but only visible intermittently. Engraved plate with larger dampstain to lower fifth of plate near spine. Map # 1with small closed tears at folds, Map # 2 similar with thin dampstain to second fold from bottom, Map # 3 (hand-colored) with 7" closed tear with paper tape repair. Overall, an interesting book in very good condition. All plates and maps accounted for. The Report of a Reconnaissance of the Black Hills of Dakota, Made in the Summer of 1874 is the official account of an expedition led by Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer into the Black Hills region, then part of the Great Sioux Reservation, under the terms of the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Condition

Very Good

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