The Black Hills journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge / Edited By Wayne R. Kime by Dodge, Richard Irving - 1996

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. xiii, 274 p. : 3 illustrations and 7 maps ; 24 cm. VOLUME 74 IN AMERICAN EXPLORATION AND TRAVEL SERIES. Bibliography. Index. A detailed account of the conflicting claims, interests, and populations that converged on the Black Hills during the key transitional period before the Great Sioux War of 1876. A well-annotated edition of the five-month trek north from Cheyenne, Wyoming, that Dodge accompanied with 452 men with their wagons and animals during the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills of the Dakotas to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the previous summer. Near Fine condition in like dustjacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.