THE BOZEMAN TRAIL: Historical Accounts of the Blazing of the Overland Routes into the Northwest, and the Fights with Red Cloud's Warriors.
With Introduction by General Charles King. Two volumes in one. Pp. 346+506, 38 plates within paginations (including frontispiece to both volumes), 2 folding maps printed in red & black, index; med. 8vo; rebound in later half dark green leather, the spine with gilt lettered red leather title labels, lighter green boards; top edges green; later endpapers, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed and a trifle soiled; The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 1960. *First published in 1922. The Bozeman Trail was an overland route connecting the gold rush territory of southern Montana to the Oregon Trail in eastern Wyoming. It followed many trails the native Americans had used, passing directly through territory occupied by the Shoshone, Arapaho and Lakota nations. Red Cloud led the Lakota in a series of conflicts with the U.S. Army from 1866 to 1868. Item #174903
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