Raynors HCA 2016-06
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Book, “FROM EVERGLADE TO CAÑON WITH THE SECOND DRAGOONS...AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF SERVICE IN FLORIDA, MEXICO, VIRGINIA, AND THE INDIAN COUNTRY....’, New York, 1875, 561 pp., plus five chromolithographs and two folding maps. Chromolithographic frontis. Contemporary sheep, recased with original spine, boards, and labels laid down. Modern bookplate on rear pastedown. Tiny chip to bottom corner of frontispiece, light offsetting to titlepage. Very good. In a cloth slipcase. This classic work on the history of the military unit which became the Second United States Cavalry offers accounts of Indian fights in Nebraska, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. The appendix includes biographical sketches of prominent officers in the Second Dragoons, as well as brief accounts of battles in which they participated from 1836 to 1875. William Drown's daily journal from 1852 to 1858 is present, as well as material on the Civil, Mexican-American, and Florida wars, and the Mormons. The work is highlighted by handsome and bright color plates by Edwin Forbes depicting military scenes; and two folding maps of battles, one of the United States and Mexico, the other of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.
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