Campaigning With Crook

Description

Author: King, Charles (Captain, U.S.A.) (1844-1933)

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Pub Date: 1964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Book: Good.  Binding tight.  No marks, tears, bends or folds.  A couple of small spots on side text block.  Some foxing to upper text block.  Very light edge and corner wear.  Dust Jacket: Fair.  NOT price clipped. Wear, chipping to upper edges, front and rear.  All corners have some wear.  Some small (approx. 1/16-1/8″ ) chips to spine head.   Scuffing and smudging to front and rear covers.

Notes:  Volume 25 in the Western Frontier Library series.   King, an 1866 graduate of West Point, served in Ohio (where he also played professional baseball for the fledgling Cincinnati Red Stockings) and New Orleans before being assigned in 1874 to Camp Verde, Arizona.  In a battle against the Apache at Sunset Pass, Arizona, King was wounded so badly it took a year for him to recuperate.  He went on to serve with Crook in the 1876 Big Horn and Yellowstone Expeditions against the Sioux and Cheyenne (the subject of this volume).  He retired from the Army in 1880, and became a well-known, best-selling author.  He wrote almost 70 books, mostly about the military.