Then And Now; Or, Thirty-Six Years In The Rockies. Personal Reminiscences Of Some Of The First Pioneers Of The State Of Montana. Indian And Indian Wars. The Past And Present Of The Rocky Mountain Country, 1864-1900

ROBERT VAUGHN

Publication: Tribune Printing Company, 1900, Minneapolis

First edition. 8vo. Original deluxe leather binding, titles stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, all edges gilt, colored front and rear marbled endpapers, 461 pp., preface, frontispiece (portrait), plates, plus eight illustrations by C.M. Russell. Vaughn left Illinois in 1864 for the gold fields of Idaho. Later that year he moved to the gold fields of Montana. He relates his experiences and some early history of the state. It describes the first decade of the author's stay there, beginning right after the Civil War and continuing up to the Nez Perce War of 1877. Much on cattle, Indian fighting, buffalo hunting, Custer and the Little Big Horn, pioneers, ranching, the Nez Perce War, the Ghost Dance, etc. Former owner's neat bookplate on the front pastedown sheet, a few minor rubs to edge of spine, and very slight sunning to spine, else a fine, bright copy of a scarce book and one that is basic for the early history of Montana. O'Keefe 2442 notes "a few copies in leather". As noted by Tim Phelps in A Photographic Reference For The Western Americana Collector, "in publisher's full leather, all edges gilt, raised bands on spine. Rare.". A exceptionally handsome copy of this Montana classic, in the rare full leather binding.