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The prairie logbooks; dragoon campaigns to the Pawnee villages in 1844, and to the Rocky mountains in 1845, by Lieutenant J. Henry Carleton. Edited with an introduction by Louis Pelzer.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Rare Books Collection E81 .C32
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st.
- United States.
- Indians of North America--Wars--1815-1875.
- Indians of North America.
- Dakota Indians--Wars.
- Dakota Indians.
- Pawnee Indians.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 295 p. illus. 24cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago, The Caxton club, 1943.
- Notes:
- At head of title: 1844-1845.
- "Of this book, designed by William A. Kittredge, three hundred and fifty copies have been printed at the Lakeside press, R. R. Donnelley and sons company, Chicago, Illinois."
- "Lieutenant James Henry Carlton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the times, New York from November 9, 1844 to April 12, 1845 ... The Logbook describing the second expedition (commanded by S. W. Kearny) was first printed in the Spirit of the times from December 27, 1845 to May 30, 1846."--Introd., p.xiii-xiv.
- "Appendix. Principal writing of the First regiment of United States dragoons from 1833 to 1847": p.293-295.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: David Appel.
- OCLC:
- 1951315
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