A first edition of a biography of U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925). Miles is described on the jacket flap by Gregory J.W. Urwin as ". . .probably the best Indian fighter produced by the U.S. Army between 1865 and 1890. . ." With 12 pages of black & white photos and 7 maps. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling in silver. Volume wrapped in jacket with detail from Frederic Remington's "Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier." --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Unpriced jacket without significant damages; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector, which has some rubbing.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xv, 391 pages
Title: Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army
Edition: First Edition
ISBN Number: 0803247591
ISBN-13: 9780803247598
Location Published: Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press: 1993
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket
Categories: >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, >>Military and Military Leaders
Stock No.: 87145
