Through the Country of The Comanche Indians in the Fall of the Year 1845: The Journal of a U.S. Army Expedition led by Lieutenant James W. Abert of the Topographical Engineers, Artist Extraordinary Whose Paintings of Indians and Their Wild West illustrated this book by Abert, James W.; John Galvin, ed - 1970

San Francisco, California: John Howell--Books, 1970. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. James W. Abert. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in big, tall, folio format cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. Simple, blank paper dust wrapper, a bit bit worn and chipped along top edge, else clean and unmarked. 77 pp. and with more than two dozen full-color illustrations plus two folding maps. Limited to 5000 copies, and designed and printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy, the master printers. "When Fremont was at Bent's Fort during his third expedition, he sent a detachment under Abert to examine the country south through Raton Pass and down the Canadian River," and this rousing account delivers. James William Abert (1820–1897), army officer and explorer, was born in Mount Holly, New Jersey, the son of Major John James Abert, an officer in the Corps of Topographical Engineers. "In his teens he attended Princeton University," says a scholarly source devoted to him, "where he graduated, probably from its academy, in 1838; he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in September of that year. In 1842 he was assigned to the Fifth United States Infantry. After an uneventful year of garrison duty in Detroit, Abert was transferred to the Corps of Topographical Engineers in May 1843. His first assignment in the corps was that of assistant topographical engineer in an extensive survey of the northern lakes, 1843–44. During that time he married Jane Stone, and they had a son. In the summer of 1845 Abert was attached to the third expedition of John Charles Frémont, whose assignment was 'to make reconnaissance southward and eastward along the Canadian River through the country of Kiowa and Comanche.'" Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.