On the Border With Crook [Leather Binding]
by Bourke, John G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0809435853
- ISBN 13
- 9780809435852
- Seller
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Traverse City, Michigan, United States
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Synopsis
“There is an old saying in the Army which teaches that you can never know a man until after having made a scout with him in bad weather. All the good qualities and bad in the human makeup force their way to the surface under the stimulus of privation and danger, .... late friend and commander ....present volume, there will be found collected descriptions of the regions in which the major portion of General Crook’s Indian work was carried on; the people, both red and white, with whom he was brought into contact; the difficulties with which he had to contend, and the manner in which he overcame them.” -from the preface.
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- Bookseller
- Peninsula Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20029
- Title
- On the Border With Crook [Leather Binding]
- Author
- Bourke, John G
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0809435853
- ISBN 13
- 9780809435852
- Publisher
- Time-Life Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- 0809435853, Military, Western Americana, Indians, Indian Wars, Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Sioux, Apache, Leather Binding
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