The Cheyenne And Black Hills Stage And Express Routes.

AGNES WRIGHT SPRING

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Company, 1949, Glendale

First edition. 8vo. Red Cloth, 418pp., frontis, preface, illus., appendices, biblio., fold-out map, index. The folding two-color map shows the routes from Cheyenne to Dakota Territory, especially prepared by the author from source material. Illustrations include two unpublished paintings by William H. Jackson. The appendices include an extensive, descriptive list of owners and many employees of the stage company; descriptive lists of coaches and markers; and the diary of George V. Ayres. "One of the best books written about the Black Hills and the outlaws of that region, revealing much scholarly research by an able historian."--Ramon Adams. "This account of travel back and forth from Wyoming is a basic study of the early development of this region."---Clark/Brunet 237. Fine, bright copy issued without dust jacket. Non-authorial presentation on front pastedown. Sheet with signed presentation by Spring affixed to front free-endpaper. Typed and signed letter from Agnes Wright Spring neatly affixed to front free-endpapers.

Inventory Number: 51361