Custer's Last Fight. A New Historical Melodrama.

HAL REID

Publication: Jerome H Remick & Co 1905, New York

First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial Wrappers. [16pp.] Numerous illustrations throughout. A Wild West program, issued to support the traveling show which headlined the new historical drama, Custer's Last Fight, "Introducing Montgomery Irving and the largest Dramatic Company on the road...The Magnificent Indian War Spectacle "Custer's Last Stand". Several stories throughout include some of Major Reno's report of The Battle of the Little Big Horn, "What a Man of the Wild West Thinks of New York", the Indian Story, and other similar stories. One of many traveling Wild West/Custer shows of the period. A striking front cover, printed in red and blue, with large central image of an Indian chief in full feathered headdress, surrounded by images of a buffalo, a stagecoach, mounted Indians, and armed white men on horseback, with "GEN. CUSTER"S LAST FIGHT" in large letters across top and bottom. Some slight chipping to blank fore-edge of front cover, else bright and suitable for framing. A couple of light creases to back cover. A exceptionally bright, attractive copy of this fragile 120 year old program.