Edward Fitzgerald Beale: A Pioneer in the Path of Empire, 1822-1903
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1912. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2341538
First edition (Six-Guns and Saddle Bags 237, Howes B-608). Front hinge weakening, edges and endpapers a bit foxed, spine a bit soiled.
xii, 312 pp. Blue cloth, gilt titles. Woodcut frontispiece portrait of Beale, engraved and lithographed plates in text. Beale was a naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat, and friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody and Ulysses S. Grant.
Price: $175.00
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