THE PASSING OF THE GREAT WEST. SELECTED PAPERS OF GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
New York: Winchester Press, 1972. First Edition. Cloth. (10)182 pp. Custer historian John M. Carroll's copy, with his bookplate, signed in ink by John M. Carroll, affixed to a front free endpaper. Illustrated dust jacket. Illustrated, including from period photographs, maps. Notes. Selected bibliography. Index. Edited by historian John F. Reiger. Cloth. 6 1/4" x 9 1/2". Based largely upon his own unpublished memoir, The Passing of the West is an account of the life of George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938) up to 1883. Grinnell was an explorer, hunter, rancher, naturalist, author and conservationist. From the jacket flap, he "... was with Marsh on the Great Plains, with Colonel Custer in the Black Hills (and) with Captain William Ludlow on his reconnaissance of the Yellowstone region...". A Fine copy in a Near Fine dust jacket (price-clipped; small chip to top of spine), now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address. Fine / Near Fine. Item #2715
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