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UNLIKELY WARRIORS. General Benajmin Grierson and His Family
by Leckie, William H. and Shirley A. Leckie
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/good +
- ISBN 10
- 0806119128
- ISBN 13
- 9780806119120
- Seller
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Deerfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, (c. 1984),, (1984). first edition, as stated. Hardcover. near fine/good +. xvi + 368 pages, octavo, hardcover. Includes black and white illustrations and maps, bibliography, index. Book is near fine; dust jacket is sunned on spine and top edges, a bit rubbed, Good+ "In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. For the remainder of his career he served on the western frontier. Appreciative of the achievements of his black Buffalo Soldiers, and sympathetic toward the plight of the Indian people, Grierson did not fit the popular image of the Indian-fighter cavalryman, though in the Victorio War of 1880 he out-fought one of the ablest of all Apache chiefs..." -from the dust jacket. 082504A
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- Bookseller
- Alkahest Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10456
- Title
- UNLIKELY WARRIORS. General Benajmin Grierson and His Family
- Author
- Leckie, William H. and Shirley A. Leckie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition, as stated
- ISBN 10
- 0806119128
- ISBN 13
- 9780806119120
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press, (c. 1984),
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- (1984)
- Keywords
- AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AMERICAN WEST, MILITARY, BLACK SOLDIERS, INDIANS 0-8061-1912-8
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Alkahest Books was established in1984. We started as an open shop on Central St. in Evanston, IL, and sold books there until 2002 and later were part of Chicago Rare Book Center which closed in 2017. We are members of the Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association, and IOBA and sell both online and at book fairs. International customers should ask for a shipping quote before ordering as the rates given are only for smaller books.
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Sunned
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- Good+
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