Campaigning With Custer And The Nineteenth Kansas Volunteer Cavalry On The Washita Campaign, 1868-'69

DAVID L. AND E. A. BRININSTOOL SPOTTS

Publication: Wetzel Publishing Company, 1928, Los Angeles

First edition. Octavo. Signed by David L. Spotts on the limitation page. This is copy #274. Decorated blue cloth with gilt stamping on front cover and spine, colorful marbled endpapers, 215 pp., frontispiece [portrait], introductory, illustrated, maps, preface. This is the daily diary of David L. Spotts as he describes the thrilling events on the winter campaign against the hostile Cheyennes, Kiowas, and Comanches. Wright Howes says that all but 300 of the copies were destroyed by fire. The story of the Washita Campaign of 1868-69 against the Arapahoe, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Comanche Indians in Kansas and Oklahoma. The hardship and suffering endured by this regiment in its campaign with Custer and the 7th Cavalry, is unparalleled. A beautiful, bright copy, as New in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 51554