Gillem alvan (4 resultados)

Stitched self wrappers. First edition thus. 18 pp. 8vo. Special Session, March 5, 1877. Senate. Ex. Doc. No. 1. "Earliest Account of this disastrous campaign," Howes. Gillem was Commander of the Modoc Expedition during which unarmed Peace Commissioners sent by Ulysses Grant were murdered by the Modoc leader Captain Jack and his band. Gillem offers both a detailed report on the Campaign as well as a defense of his actions at the Lava Beds tragedy for which he was criticized. Both this, the official government report, and that printed earlier in 1874 at Benicia Barracks, are quite uncommon. OCLC shows only five copies of the 1874 report and five copies of this version: Yale, Univ. Arizona, Univ. Cal, Huntington, and Univ. Alberta, only one east of the Mississippi. Howes G175. Graff 1551. A very good copy with several chips and tears.…

Pamphlet. Condición: Good. No publisher or place. Presumed US Government Printing Office, Washington: 1877. Pamphlet, disbound from a larger work and lacking any wrappers issued. 18 pp. A detailed account from the commanding officer's perspective (General Alvan Gillem), of the fighting between the Modoc Native Americans and US troops, in Northern California during the first half of 1873. This includes accounts of various peace meetings, actual battles, including the battles of Sand Butte and Dry Lake. The Modoc War began through misunderstandings of intentions between white settlers and native tribes, with tensions escalating after killings on both sides, including members of the peace commission sent by Ulysses S. Grant. GOOD condition. Minor general foxing and general uneven toning. Minor soiling. Some creasing and curling along the extremities. Howes G175.…

LeatherBound. Condición: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1874 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 104 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 104 Language: English.…

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