Search Results: caspar collins the life and exploits by spring agnes wright

AMS Press. Used - Like New. 1967. Hardcover. Facsimile reprint of the 1927 edition. Fine. (Subject: Americana & Regional History).

New York: Ams Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1967. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1927 edition. .

New York, NY: AMS Press, Inc., 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. VG/none, used but looks like new, brown colored cloth binding, 187pp. Interior clean no marks, binding tight. No wear to exterior, corners clean and square..

1927. SPRING, Agnes Wright. Caspar Collins: The Life and Exploits of an Indian Fighter of the Sixties. New York: columbia University Press, 1927. 1st ed. 187 pp. Frontis., Illus., portraits, maps. Orig. cloth. Fine. Biography of the Indian fighter based on original documents and correspondence.

Columbia University Press. Good. 1927. Hardcover. Brown cloth very good but for spotted edges. Dj soiled and edge worn with small tears, paper toned. .

New York, Columbia University Press, 1927.. 1st edition. Cloth, 187, [1] pp., 12 plates. Light damp-staining to the bottom of the covers and spine, spine letters rubbed. Very good.

Columbia University Press, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. First Edition. 187 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Foreword by Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Lettering to spine dulled.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1927., 1927. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Brown cloth, 187 pp., frontis., foreword, illustrated, plates, portraits, appendix. Foreword by Major General Hugh L. Scott. Lt. Caspar Wever Collins was born in 1844 and died in battle leading troops against hostile Indians at Platte Bridge in 1865. Platte Bridge had been selected by the Indians as their objective for a concentrated attack because it controlled one of the most important crossings of the North Platte River on the Telegraph and Emigrant Overland route. Much on Plains Indian wars in part one of the book, while part two deals with Caspar Collins' letters. A fine copy. Dust jacket has darkening to spine, some occasional edgewear, 3 short scars on back panel, and light general, uniform dusty soiling.

Columbia University Press, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. Scarce important work on frontier Idaho, with Collins' illustrations of vanished places such as Sweetwater Station, done before there were cameras. Superb Americana. In Mylar cover.