OUR WILD INDIANS: Thirty-Three Years' Personal Experience Among the Red Men of the Great West. A Popular Account of Their Social Life, Religion, Habits, Traits, Customs, Exploits, Etc. with Thrilling Adventures and Experiences on the Great Plains and in the Mountains of Our Wide Frontier.
Hartford, CT: A.D. Worthington and Company, 1882.
Hardcover. Good. Item #57160
Octavo. 8 3/4 x 6 ". 650pp. "Fully Illustrated with Portraits on Steel, Full-page Engravings on Wood, and Fine Chromo-Lithograph Plates". Brown embossed cloth with gilt title and decoration. Spine faded with wear and fraying to spine ends and corners. Coated paper endpapers with hinges reinforced with cloth tape. Title-page very fragile with long split at hinge. Chip to edge of first few pages, and some light foxing to first and last few pages.
Richard Irving Dodge was in command at Fort Dodge when the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway needed a station on the Arkansas River. A site was selected five miles west of the fort and the town was named Dodge City which later became famous for its wildness, its Boot Hill cemetery, and gunslinging lawmen like Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson.-wikipedia.
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