SCENES AND ADVENTURES IN THE ARMY: OR, ROMANCE OF MILITARY LIFE

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432pp. Original green patterned cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge cracked. Slight foxing. Overall very good. From the library of Guy Littell, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Second issue, probably the same sheets as the first of 1857, with a cancel title and Cooke's new rank of colonel. Cooke's career was largely in the West, beginning as an escort for a Santa Fe caravan in 1829, and including service with Phil Kearny at Fort Atkinson in 1831 and then escorting emigrants on the Oregon Trail in 1845. After the events of this book, Cooke went on to command the Mormon Battalion in the conquest of New Mexico and California. A noteworthy account of military duty of the Santa Fe and Oregon trails in the first half of the 19th century. WAGNER-CAMP 288:2. MINTZ 105, "bbb." CLARK III:24. HOWES C740, "aa." FIELD 359. SABIN 16339. RITTENHOUSE 132. GRAFF 871. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 145. N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM27833

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