Search Results: The Life Of Yellowstone Kelly by Jerry Keenan

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006 First edition. xxi, [1], 377pp. Illustrated with photographs. Notes, bibliography, index. Maroon cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket. The first full-length biography of Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly (1849-1928), utilizing Kelly's own memoirs issued in 1926 as well as personal correspondence and other papers. Kelly knew the frontier of the American West and recorded his impressions of that time and place with a fluid, literary pen. Kelly joined the army at the close of the Civil War, spending three years at lonely outposts in Minnesota and Dakota. At the conclusion of his enlistment, he headed west to begin life as a frontiersman, explorer, and army scout and came to know the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone River valleys as well as any white man of his era..

Fine. 1st printing. Jacket in mylar

Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. Hardcover. As New/As New. Number line in the book reads as follows: Year 10 09 08 07 06 Printing 1 2 3 4 5. Volume itself has red covers with sharp gilt lettering on the spine. 377 pages, including an index and a bibliography. Dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. The name, Luther Kelly, has yet to find a niche in the public consciousness. Thus, he remains a figure in the shadows, today as in his own time. It is the author's hope that the recounting in this book might serve to bring the name Luther Sage Kelly out of the shadows to its merited place of recognition. This is for readers to decide. A very nice, near mint, copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box.

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Univ of New Mexico Pr, 2017. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 400 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.25 inches.

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Paperback / softback. New. In the first full-length biography of Luther Sage ""Yellowstone"" Kelly (1849-1928), Jerry Keenan provides a comprehensive look at this extraordinary man of the American West. Based on Kelly's memoirs and personal correspondence, this book offers insight into many of the prominent figures he knew, including Col. Nelson A. Miles, William F. ""Buffalo Bill"" Cody, and President Theodore Roosevelt.