Report Of Lieut. General P. H. Sheridan, Dated September 20, 1881, Of His Expedition Through The Big Horn Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Etc., Together With Reports Of Lieut. Col. J. F. Gregory, A. D. C., Surgeon W. H. Forwood, And Capt. S. C. Kellogg, Fifth Cavalry

LIEUT GENERAL P. H. SHERIDAN

Publication: Government Printing Office, 1882, Washington

First edition. 8vo. Original two-tone quarter cloth and printed paper over stiff boards, 39 pp., two folding maps laid-in. Map 1: 11" x 17" that covers Yellowstone National Park to Idaho with the line of travel in red and tape repairs to the rear seams; Map 2: 12" x 23" that covers east from Fort Phil Kearny, north to the Crow Reservation, west through Yellowstone to Idaho, with the line of travel in red and tape repairs to the rear seams. "The purpose of the expedition was to acquire additional knowledge of the interesting country in and about the Big Horn Mountains, and the valley of the Big Horn, Grey Bull, and Stinking Water, and Clark's Fork, lying west of and between the Big Horn and the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and thence crossing the main chain to the National Park." Account of the Fetterman massacre. "Rattlesnakes were killed nearly every day of our trip after leaving Fort Fetterman, and at Tongue River eight were killed around Colonel Kellogg's tent." Much on Yellowstone Park. Includes a table of distances and a list of good camping places westward from Fort Washakie. "Includes the report of Capt. S.C. Kellogg's trip to the Tetons and Jackson's Hole, infrequently visited since the trapper's rendezvous in the 1830's. "The country is still a wilderness, but is too beautiful to remain so much longer." Scribner. Not in Graff or Howes. An elusive and much sought title, last recorded by Goodspeeds in 1970.

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