Adventures with Indians and Game; or, Twenty Years in the Rocky Mountains (Classics of the Old West series).

Alexandria, Virginia:: Time-Life Books, 1983.. Reprint Edition.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: from a uniformly bound series: dark brown bonded leather with gilt text, stamped decoration on the front cover, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker; embossed ownership seal on the blank page that has publisher's statement on the verso; one small blemish in the gilt top edge, otherwise in Very Good condition.. 8vo (8.5 inches tall) . Marbled endpapers. Description: Several black and white illustrations. Originally published in 1903, this reprint edition is part of the Time-Life Classics of the Old West series. Each volume in the series has been photographically reproduced from the original edition. The publisher's insert tells us that William Alonzo Allen was born in Ohio in 1848 and recalled that the highlights of his boyhood were discovering the rile, along with his own talent for shooting squirrels, and being apprenticed to the local gunsmith. By the end of his first chapter Allen has left the 'overcrowded East', headed for the Black Hills, shot his first deer and paned his first gold. By the end of his second chapter he had been elected captain of his wagon train, fought two battles with hostile Indians, been wounded and met Calamity Jane. Though Allen was an enthusiastic Indian fighter on that trip and later, he also made friends with some Crow Indians in Montana. Allen worked as a freighter, gunsmith, blacksmith, and a frontier dentist (though that is not recounted here). But he was most known as a sporting hunter. This book focuses mostly on that aspect of his life. Six-Guns, Number 76. Includes the publisher's insert.