Sheridan's Troopers by De B. Randolph Keim

Sheridan's Troopers on the Borders: A Winter Campaign on the Plains

De B. Randolph Keim

David McKay, 1885

Hardcover: Very Good. No dustjacket. Woodcut-engraved frontispiece portrait of Sheridan, numerous woodcut-engraved plates. Brown pictorial publisher's cloth, illustration on front cover in black, gilt lettering. Very slight edgewear, slight wear and bumping to corners, very light uniform interior toning. Former owners signature on free front end paper dated 1889. Second edition of this famed New York Herald war correspondent's memoir of the six-month Winter Campaign by the U.S. Army against the Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe tribes to force them onto reservations. The work offers a gritty first-hand witness account of the battles, massacres, and life on the frozen plains following the Civil War.