Campaigning Against The Sioux. Being Extracts From A Diary Kept During One Of Three Expeditions Participated In By The Author Against The Sioux, Under General Sully In 1863-4-5

A. N. JUDD

Publication: Press of the Daily Pajaronian, 1906, Watsonville

First edition. Limited to 40 copies! Original Pictorial Wrappers bound in Tan cloth binding. Gilt title on the spine, top edges gilt, double column, 45 pp., illustrated by the author, some of the sketches being modifications from Catlin. This copy was presented to the Newberry Library in 1911 by Edward Everett Ayer with a bookplate on the front pastedown sheet that states that information and also on the front pastedown sheet is a small label stating this book had been removed from the library. "Ayer amassed an enormous collection of books and manuscripts on American history as it pertained to the North American Indians. Ayer was a charter Trustee of Chicago's Newberry Library when it incorporated in 1892. In 1897, he determined to donate his roughly 50,000 pieces to the library, but because of the enormity of the undertaking, this took until 1911 to complete." Eberstadt 133:572 says: "Privately printed in an edition of 40 copies for the author's family and comrades of earlier days. The narrative is a remarkable one. In Judd's first foray, Sully ordered his troopers to decapitate the dead Indians and mount the heads on poles. Naturally enough, these tactics failed to soothe the Sioux, and the horrors of the ensuing campaign---here recorded in day-by-day form---constitute a record of personal experiences seldom excelled as a vivid chronicle of actual Indian warfare in the West." "Judd's diary describes General Sully's cavalry actions against the Santee Sioux in Montana Territory in 1864."--O'Keefe 1260. In addition to the plates on the front pastedown sheet there are library numbers on the dedication page else an ex-library copy in near fine condition. A beautiful copy of this great rarity, protected in a half-leather clamshell box with title in gilt on spine.

Inventory Number: 51762