Horses Worn to Mere Shadows: The Victorio Campaign 1880
by Watt, Robert N. (inscribed By the Author to Robert M. Utley)
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About This Item
Warwick, England: Helicon, 2019. Large Octavo. 475 pages. index. Inscribed by the author also with a letter laid in on University letterhead from the author. Illustrated. This is the definitive history of the Victorio Campaign in 1880. It is expertly written and lavishly supplemented with photographic plates, complex charts and graphs, with complete analysis including the politics of the international campaign during the Apache Wars. Laid in is a letter to his fellow historian Robert M. Utlery: Dear Robert, Please find enclosed a copy of "horses Worn to Mere Shadows"..enjoy (I hope). signed R. Watt. P.S. the original documents file came to over 300 palges so they can be provied online where he notes the pdf file. A very good copy bound in black cloth, spine lettering silver, two bumped corners, in near fine pictorial dust jacket.
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- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (US)
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- 027547
- Title
- Horses Worn to Mere Shadows: The Victorio Campaign 1880
- Author
- Watt, Robert N. (inscribed By the Author to Robert M. Utley)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Helicon
- Place of Publication
- Warwick, England
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Apache Wars; New Mexico, Battle of Hembrillo Canyon;
- Bookseller catalogs
- Indian History and Art; New Mexico;
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