The prairie logbooks ; dragoon campaigns to the Pawnee villages in 1844, and to the Rocky mountains in 1845 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873
Corporate Author:	Caxton Club
Other Authors:	Pelzer, Louis, 1879-1946
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago : The Caxton club, 1943.
Subjects:	United States. > Army. > Cavalry, 1st. Indians of North America > Wars > 1815-1875. Dakota Indians > Wars. Pawnee Indians.

Description
Item Description:	At head of title: 1844-1845. "Of this book, designed by William A. Kittredge, three hundred and fifty copies have been printed at the Lakeside press, R. R. Donnelley & sons company, Chicago, Illinois." "Lieutenant James Henry Carlton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the times, New York from November 9, 1844 to April 12, 1845 ... The Logbook describing the second expedition (commanded by S. W. Kearny) was first printed in the Spirit of the times from December 27, 1845 to May 30, 1846."--introduction, p.xiii-xiv.
Physical Description:	2 pages ., vii-xviii, 295 pages, 1 : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	"Appendix. Principal writing of members of the First regiment of United States dragoons from 1833 to 1847": pages 293-295.