Cache La Poudre; The Romance Of A Tenderfoot In The Days Of Custer.

HERBERT MYRICK

Other works by HERBERT MYRICK

Publication: Orange Judd Co, 1905, New York

First edition. Limited to 500 copies of which this is copy 495. Bound in fringed, Indian smoked tanned buckskin, marbled endpapers, 202 pp., frontispiece, illustrated, plates (16 colored), portraits., maps, 10 illustrations tipped in. addenda p.[187-202], half-title, double column colophon. Illustrations by Charles Schreyvogel, Edward W. Deming, and Henry Fangel. Light offsetting to title page, buckskin covers light rubbed at the fore-edges, else a very good tight copy. A unique production, consisting of well-illustrated fiction with many documentary photographs of real characters of the Old West and cowboy life, in a most unusual binding. Much on Custer's Battle at Little Big Horn.

An historical Western novel, set in the American frontier during the 1870s, it combines fictional adventure with real historical figures, places, photographs, and illustrations to recreate life in the era of westward expansion and the Indian Wars. The story follows a young, inexperienced Easterner ... a "tenderfoot" ... who leaves the settled East to seek adventure and opportunity on the western frontier. Traveling through Colorado and the Great Plains, he encounters ranchers, buffalo hunters, scouts, cavalry officers, settlers, and Native Americans, gradually learning the skills and values needed to survive in the rugged West. The novel traces events from the economic turmoil following the Panic of 1873 to frontier life in Colorado and New Mexico, eventually taking the hero north into the Dakota Territory, where he joins scouting expeditions associated with George Armstrong Custer. These episodes culminate in a fictionalized account of the campaign that led to Custer's defeat, after which the story returns to the peaceful setting of a ranch along the Cache la Poudre River.

Inventory Number: 54508