Ten Days on the Plains (The DeGolyer Library Publication Series, Volume Two)

Language: English

Published by Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas, 1985

0870742078 / 9780870742071

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Description: The jacket art reproduces the painting Great Royal Buffalo Hunt by Louis Maurer. Well illustrated in black and white with historic photographs and other illustrations. This was originally published in 1871 in a limited edition; this is a first printing of this reprint edition, and is Volume Number Two in The DeGolyer Library Publication Series. Taken from the jacket blurb: The book is a memento of a hunting expedition -- hosted by Lieutenant General Philip H Sheridan -- designed to impress influential business and civic leaders with the role of the frontier army. Covering almost 200 miles in ten days, the hunters left a trail of empty champagne bottles and animal carcasses from Nebraska to Kansas. Over 600 buffalo were slaughtered, along with hundreds of elk, antelope, and wild turkeys. To guide the hunters Sheridan secured the services of a young scout, William F Cody, who was already beginning to develop the image he eventually perfected on eastern stages. It is no exaggeration to say that Cody and Sheridan invented the Wild West show on that autumn expedition. In his introduction and annotations, Paul Andrew Hutton addresses the close working relationship between the frontier military and the eastern business community, as well as the callous slaughter of western wildlife represented by the trip. Hutton also discusses the emergence of Cody as hero-type out of the post-Civil War frontier. BINDNG/CONDITION: paper covered boards with cloth at the spine; a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket. index. 8vo (about 9.5 inches tall). 178 pages.

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Title
Ten Days on the Plains (The DeGolyer Library Publication Series, Volume Two)
Author
Davies, Henry E; edited by Paul Andrew Hutton
Publisher
Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas
Publication year
1985
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
Dust Jacket Included
Binding
Hardbound
Language
English
ISBN 10
0870742078
ISBN 13
9780870742071
Edition
1st Edition, thus.
Dimensions
8vo (about 9.5 inches tall)
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