AB-SA-RA-KA LAND OF MASSACRE: BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF AN OFFICER'S WIFE ON THE PLAINS.

Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott Company, 1879. Front cover gilt vignette of Native American in full headdress is bright. Spine lettered in gilt. Spine extremities are frayed. Small scratch rear cover. Frontispiece illustration of three Crow chiefgs, eith tissue-guard. Two fold-out maps in fine condition. Fifteen illustrations through text. Title continues, "with an outline of Indian operations and conferences from 1865 to 1878..... Revised, enlarged, and illustrated with maps, cuts, Indian portraits, etc.". First printed in 1868. We find no first or second editions for sale. 383pp. See Howes C-175, Luther 137, Rader 601. . Fifth Edition. Brown Cloth. Light (truncated) Cover and Corner Wear/No Dust Jacket. Crown Octav. (Inventory #: 015801)