Gibbon General John (11 results)

Condition: very_good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly shelf worn with blue smudge on top corner of front flap. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.0-253-32579-X8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 1st. Edited by Alan and Maureen Gaff.

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Very Good. Perry Mason Company, Boston, 1902. Copyright, 1902. 192 pages, publisher advertisement. 7.5 x 5", pictorial cloth. Owner name, VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. ISBN 025332579X. Hardcover copy in very good to near fine condition with very good to near fine dustjacket. First printing of this edition. Tight clean attractive, unmarked copy. C3 shelf 5 16.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. ISBN 025332579X. Hardcover copy in very good to near fine condition with very good to near fine dustjacket. First printing of this edition. Tight clean attractive, unmarked copy. C3 Shelf 5 16.

HC. Condition: very good. 256 A chronicle of the American West composed from a frontier soldiers writings.

First edition. 8vo. Blue cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xvi, 256 pp., frontispiece [portrait], editor's foreword, illustrated, portraits, index. General Gibbon's experiences on the western frontier as he first encountered it in 1860, and as he campaigned and scouted through the West during the 1870s. Robert M. Utley says "John Gibbon was a seasoned frontier soldier, not given to the public theatrics of some of his contemporaries. His writings represent a vivid glimpse of the West while it was still untamed --- an interesting and informative contribution to the literature of westward expansion." A section on Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Step onto the windswept Montana battlefield in the summer of 1876, when the fate of the frontier was written in blood.Originally published in 1877, this rare firsthand account by General John Gibbon captures the immediate aftermath of one of the most infamous clashes in American history: the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Gibbon was not a distant historian-he arrived with General Alfred Terry's relief column just two days after Custer's 7th Cavalry was annihilated. What he found was a scene so grim and shocking that his vivid descriptions still chill readers nearly 150 years later.In these pages, Gibbon recounts: The tense days leading up to the expedition and the final time he saw George Armstrong Custer ride out at Rosebud Creek.His haunting discovery of the battlefield strewn with fallen soldiers, a vision of horror almost beyond description.The condition of Major Marcus Reno and the shattered survivors who had endured two desperate days of fighting.Unlike later histories built on secondhand stories and speculation, Gibbon's papers deliver the raw voice of a Civil War veteran and direct witness to the grim realities of the frontier. His narrative remains one of the most authentic and riveting accounts of the Little Bighorn disaster ever recorded.For readers passionate about the Old West, Custer, Native American history, or the ongoing debate about what really happened on that fateful June day, this is an indispensable addition to your bookshelf.Discover the words of the man who saw it all-when the dust had barely settled and the echoes of gunfire still hung in the valley of the Little Bighorn. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…