Author: WOOSTER, ROBERT
Title: Nelson A. Miles and the Twilight of the Frontier Army
Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0803247591. A first edition of a biography of U.S. Army General Nelson A. Miles (1839-1925). Miles is described on the jacket flap by Gregory J.W. Urwin as ".probably the best Indian fighter produced by the U.S. Army between 1865 and 1890." With 12 pages of black & white photos and 7 maps. --- In full blue cloth-covered boards with spine titling in silver. Volume wrapped in jacket with detail from Frederic Remington's "Through the Smoke Sprang the Daring Soldier." --- With prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a tightly-bound, sound copy. Unpriced jacket without significant damages; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector, which has some rubbing.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xv, 391 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

Keywords: 0803247591 >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Military and Military Leaders