Custer Battle Guns (Signed)
Ft. Collins, Colorado: The Old Army Press, 1974.
Limited Edition. Leatherbound.
#6 of a Limited Edition of 50 copies bound in full leather signed by the author.
A survey of the Custer battle guns, cavalry equipment, Indian weapons, personal weapons, and battlefield relics of the battle of the Little Bighorn. When the U. S. 7th Cavalry under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho met on the battlefield of the Little Bighorn in June of 1876, the nature and numbers of the weapons they employed had a profound influence upon the outcome of the struggle. A comprehensive descriptive survey of the Custer battle guns, cavalry equipment, Indian weapons, personal weapons, and battlefield relics of the battle is provided here.
Item #90148711-1/2 x 8-3/4, full blue leather, gilt titles and decoration, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, illus., appendices, notes, index, foreword by James S. Hutchins, 36 illustrations in text, frontis. "Custer's Last Stand" by Theodore Baldwin Pitman.
Bowing to boards, else near fine.
Price: $250.00