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Indian Fights and Fighters by Cyrus Brady 1st Ed.

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Indian Fights and Fighters by Cyrus Brady 1st Ed.
Included in this lot is a First Edition of “Indian Fights and Fighters” by Cyrus Townsend Brady, 1904, published in New York by Doubleday, Page & Company. This book is illustrated with original drawings by Remington, Schreyvogel, Blumenschein, and Crawford, and includes maps, photographs, and sketches of life from original sources, many of which are now published for the first time in this book. The great clash between the U.S Army and the Plains Indian tribes the principal engagements of the Plains Indian Wars in the period after the Civil War. The book draws on the first hand accounts of many of the people who were involved and is notable for bringing before the reader accounts by those who had not previously been published. Herein is a veritable cornucopia of western incident, campaigns, battles, fights and massacres, the full list of which is too numerous to catalogue here. They include the Fetterman Massacre, the Wagon Box Fight, Beecher's Island, the Fight on Beaver Creek, the Washita, the Rosebud and many, many more. This book has become an invaluable, highly regarded and enduring classic of the History of the West. This cream coloured cloth bound hardcover is in good overall condition, illustrated cover and spine exhibit soiling, edges scuffed. Intact pages exhibit age tanning and foxing throughout, no other obvious marring noted. Measures 5.5"W x 8.25"L x 1.5"D