Buffalo Days. Forty Years In The Old West: The Personal Narrative Of A Cattleman, Indian Fighter And Army Officer

COL HOMER W. WHEELER

Publication: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Publishers, 1925, Indianapolis

First edition thus. 8vo. Tan cloth. titles printed in brown on the front cover and spine, [26], 369 pp., frontispiece, introduction, preface, illustrated from photographs, 15 plates, index. This book was originally published in 1923 under the title, THE FRONTIER DAYS.... An interesting account of Wheeler's life in the West. Much on the military and the Indian Wars. Includes information on Fort Wallace Kansas, Beecher Island Fight, Plum Creek Massacre, Kansas Pacific Railroad, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, cattle rustlers, buffalo hunting, Red Cloud and the Sioux, Dull Knife Raid, killing of Crazy Horse, Nez Perce War, command of Indian Scouts, chasing Sooners out of the Indian Territory, Indian Messiah craze, Bannock in Wyoming and more. Six Guns says "Scarce" and "Has a chapter on Wild Bill Hickok." A fine bright copy in a bright, fresh dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends and corners, lightly rubbed at the front flap fold. with three tiny nicks to the fore-edges of the front cover. An attractive copy.

Inventory Number: 52658