Warpath. The True Story Of The Fighting Sioux Told In A Biography Of Chief White Bull

STANLEY VESTAL

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1934, Boston and New York

First edition. 8vo. Light Blue Cloth, maps on endpapers, xv [3], 291 pp., frontispiece., preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, map showing positions of dead bodies and troopers found on Custer Battlefield, appendix, a Minniconjou calendar, bibliography, index. One of Vestal's scarcest books, which includes an account of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Rosebud, etc. Chief White Bull was the nephew of Sitting Bull and unquestionably the greatest warrior of the Prairie Sioux, when war was still a matter of personal prowess and individual courage. A fine, bright copy in a dust jacket with some occasional slight edge wear and internal tape reinforcement along portion of top edge, else bright and attractive. An exceptional copy of a scarce work in a scarcer dust jacket. This copy is from the Melvin J. Nichols "Custer" Collection, sold by catalog issued by Fred White, Jr. and Bill Reese in 1975.

Inventory Number: 51951