Mills Anson Claudy Miles Nelson (3 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Second Edition. 431 Pages. Cover is separating from spine from the front. Sewn binding. Staining on top and bottom corners. Chips along bottom edges and shelf ware. Chip off of middle back cover edge. Bottom back corner folded. Evidence of previous taping along interior front cover. Interior pages are clean with no marks other than before mentioned stains There are 19 additional pages to this 1921 Second Edition of the 1918 Copyright. The US Army's fierce clashes with the Native Americans and the turbulent era of frontier history is brought vividly to life in this authentic first hand account. Anson Mills saw frontier service in Arizona and Kansas, where he fought against the Apache and the Cheyenne. As a battalion commander with the army, he played an important role in Reynolds's Powder River campaign of early 1876, and in the Great Sioux War later that year. His good fortune continued after his service, when he became a millionaire after inventing and improving military items. Contents in 33 Chapters: My Ancestors, Privations of the Early Pioneers, Charlottesville Academy, West Point Military Academy, Early Days in Texas, El Paso Experiences, In Washington, My Brothers in Texas, Four Years of Civil War, After the War, Marriage, Travels West and East, Nannie's Impressions of the West, Western Experiences, Detail to Paris Exposition, Out West Again, Brevet Commissions in the Army, In Washington Again, Consolidation of the El Paso and Juarez Street Railways, The Reformatin of El Paso, Mexico, Equitable Distributio of the Waters of the Rio Grade, Boundary Commission, Woman's Suffrage, Prohibition, Trip to Europe with General Miles, My Cartridge Belt Equipment, The League to Enforce Peace, Trial by Combat, Personal Trial by Combat, National Trial by Combat, Honolulu, and Conclusions. Plus Five Appendices: The Organization and Administration of the United States Army, Address Before the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Address Before the Order of Indian Wars on the Battle of the Rosebud, Address before the Order of Indian Wars by General Charles King, and Report of Gen. Mills on the Battle of Slim Buttes. Illustrated with 89 Plates ranging from Anson and Nannie Day Before Marriage, to Brigadier General John M. Wilson a Classmate.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Original publisher's black cloth binding with gilt lettering and two gilt decorative seals on front cover. All edges gilt. No lettering on spine. Original black ribbon bookmark included. "Published by the Author." Printed by the Press of Byron S. Adams of Washington, D.C. 6" x 8 1/2." 412 pages, complete. Many black-and-white illustrations, complete. Appendices in back. Pages and covers are virtually pristine and intact. Binding is tight. An As New copy. Autobiography of Brigadier General Anson Mills (1834-1924). Mills served in the U.S. Army during the Civil War. Mills divides his memoir into three periods. He moves chronologically and begins with his ancestry and early life in the first period. The next period chronicles the Civil War, the years immediately after war, and his marriage. In the third period, Mills recollects many events, both personal and historical, including his travels to Paris and Hawai'i, women's suffrage, and Prohibition.

Leather bound. 1st. INSCRIBED by MIlls' son-in-law, Major Winfield Scott Overton, (pictured on p.239). Octavo; 412pp, First Edition. 8vo. 412 pp. Copiously illustrated from photographs, drawings, portraits, maps; appendix. Near Fine copy (erasure to ffep) in flexible leather-covered wrappers stamped in gold to upper wrapper,which reproduces the 'New Zealand International Exposition 1882' medal awarded to Mills inventing a woven military cartridge belt; With black endpapers, rounded corners, all edges gilt, ribbon marker. ''Mills fought the hostiles on the Plains, and later made his home at El Paso. His book is our clearest account (from the white man's side) of the Battle of the Rosebud.'' (Stanley Vestal's 'Book Lover's Southwest' p.37).