Across the Plains in '64

Omaha, NE: National Printing Company, 1904 National Printing Company, Omaha, NE. 1904. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on a Nebraska National Bank deposit slip on May 5, 1908 (when he was 69 years old) and pasted on the front pastedown. The book is tight, square, sound hinges, and unmarked but has the former owner's name signed (he was W. T. Buchanan who was a pioneer/freighter/Indian trader/furtrader/merchant in Nebraska in Camden and Crete, NE) in pencil on the FFFP with several corrections he made to scattered areas in the text. It is possible this man knew John Collins. Book Condition: VG; light wear to the head, tail, and tips from shelving; bumped tips. No DJ. The author states that he has sketched some of his experiences in the West before the days of the railroad from diary and memory. Topics are ; Incidents of early days west of the Missouri River--two thousand miles in an open boat from Fort Benton to Omaha-reminiscences of the pioneer period of Galena, General Grant's old home; life at Fort Laramie Wyoming where he was post trader; Indian affairs, Sioux Indians; Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse's bones. A clean, rare, and very presentable copy.