Mcnaught J S (4 results)

Condition: Near Fine. First edition (softcover). 8vo (24cm by 18cm), 53pp. Text illustrations. Original plastic comb binding, laminated card wrappers. Light crease to the front cover, short onwership inscription, else this book is in very good condition. Limited to 500 numbered copies, of which this is copy number 368.…

[1959]. (Hardcover) Very good in good to very good dust jacket. 339pp. Frontispiece, notes, appendix, index. There is a previous owner's inscription, the dust jacket has edgewear, chipping, and rubbing as well as a tape repair on the back and there is minor pencil underlining on the text. Biography of J.S. Woodsworth. Locale: ; Prairie Provinces; Western Canada. (Manitoba, Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation, Politics).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Features: Cover art by W.A. Winter shows husband returning to home filled with card-playing ladies; No Excuse Now for Atomic Hush-Hush (Editorial); The Man Who Clipped the King - Paul Emile ("Red") Tasse was barber at the Chateau Laurier Hotel for Thirty years; Jim Crow Lives in Dresden, Ontario - 300 of the 1,700 citizens have Negro blood but can't get a store haircut, a permanent wave, or a restaurant meal; - article with photos; Lucy Makes My Living (fiction); The Fabulous Fraud From Eastwood - Was Ontario's audacious Cassie Chadwick the world's greatest woman swindler? - she hoaxed her way into $1.5 million; Don't Be Scared of Your Heart - the truth about tickers by an M.D.; The Loneliest Man in Canada - Frank McLaren killed his wife in 1927 and spent twelve years in jail, but now he's out; Can You Tell Which Gems are Real? - the synthetic jewelry trade is booming; The Dauntless Deacon of Caulflower Row - the checkered career of John Finlay Allen; Jeanne D'Arc and the Siren Sea (fiction); The Battle of the St. Lawrence (conclusion) - Nazi U-boats in the St. Lawrence; Frank Gladstone Waddington is the dean of Canadian Auctioneers; Nice colour-illustrated Massey-Harris tractor ad shows farmer on tractor plowing his lane with cream cans at gate; and more. 60 pages. Back cover missing. Front cover secured with archival tape. A worthy vintage example.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 November (Nov.) 1949 Cover art by W.A. Winter shows husband returning to home filled with card-playing ladies; No Excuse Now for Atomic Hush-Hush (Editorial); The Man Who Clipped the King - Paul Emile ("Red") Tass. Illustrated by Winter, W.A.; Wallam, J.S. (illustrator).…

4to. 16 pages [written on rectos only], approximately 2250 words, each sheet imprinted at the top "J.S. McNaught / Special Agent / New York Life insurance Co. / Room 1, No. 23 E. Main St. / Madison, Wis." and eight of them docketed on the verso with a brief description of that page's contents. The account begins with a description of his April, 1869, trip, up the Mississippi River on board the Pauline Carroll and later by rail and wagon, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Fort Abercrombie to assume command of that post and staff two others, beginning the trip with six companies of his regiment, the 20th U.S. Infantry. At Fort Snelling in Minnesota, he divided the troops, taking two companies to Fort Abercrombie and sending two each to Forts Ransom and Wadsworth. The balance of the manuscript records, in brief entries, his activities, duties, and travels during his two-year command, with notes on incidents involving Indians, training recruits, legal disputes, bitterly cold winter weather, etc. The manuscript appears to have been prepared a decade or so after the events. Folded twice, the sheets once bound together at the upper corner, now loose. (#6303). Fort Abercrombie, on the Red River south of present-day Fargo, was established in the Dakota Territory in 1857, the first permanent military establishment in what is now North Dakota, its mission to protect settlers in the territory and boat traffic on the river. It also guarded the oxcart routes of the fur traders, the mail routes into the territory, and the stagecoach lines. "Forts Abercrombie, Wadsworth, and Ransom were at that date among the most isolated and inaccessible in the country" (Coe's "History of the Twentieth Regiment of Infantry"). During the Civil War McNaught served with the 11th Infantry and participated in the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness, where he was wounded. The 11th was reorganized into the 20th Infantry in 1866, McNaught rose to its command, and continued service with the Western army into the mid-1880s at various forts in Dakota, Texas, and Kansas. At retirement, he relocated to Madison, Wisconsin, where he entered the life insurance business.…