Author: NYE, COLONEL WILBUR STURTEVANT
Title: Carbine & Lance : The Story of Old Fort Sill
Description: Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1962. Eighth Printing; Hardcover. B & W ; 6 1/2 9 1/4"; xix, 345 pages; AUTHOR SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON FRONT END PAPER, DATED 8 JAN 1969. Hard cover has red spine with gold lettering. Boards have light rubbing, scuffing, fading. DJ has light rubbing, scuffing; in a mylar cover. Top edge red. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Originally published in 1937, this is the 8th printing from 1962. 'From extensive research, conversations with both Indian and white eye witnesses, and his familiarity with Indian life and army affairs, Captain Nye has written an unforgettable account of these stirring time. The delineation of character and the reconstruction of colorful scenes, so often absent in historical writing, are to be found here in abundance. His Indians are made to live again: his scenes of post life could have been written only by an army man.' Index. ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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