Red Mother

FRANK B. LINDERMAN

Publication: The John Day Company, 1932, New York

First edition. 8vo. Original tan cloth with brown decorations on the front cover and titles stamped in brown on the spine, pictorial front and rear endpapers, 256 pp., foreword, illustrated, Illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops. The accounts of Pretty Shield, medicine woman of the Crows and wife of the Crow scout Goes Ahead, who scouted for the 7th Cavalry June 22-25, 1876 and was at the Little Big Horn. This is the first published account to state that Custer was killed attempting to cross the Little Big Horn River, as was his flag bearer and the interpreter Mitch Boyer. With valuable material on the activities of the Crow scouts. Former owner's large bookplate affixed to the front pastedown sheet, a small (1 1/4" x 1 1/2") old water stain to mid-spine on rear cover else very good copy in the elusive and price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, two tiny holes at lower spine panel, light wear to the spine ends, and with a few tiny nicks and chips to the corners and extremities. A scarce title and even harder to find in the elusive dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 48924