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Wayne R. Kime
In the decade that followed his emigration to the United States in 1851, Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) produced a steady stream of contributions to American newspapers and magazines. As short story…
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Designed to appeal to both general and specialist readers, this volume presents a group of works by O'Brien (1828-1862), an early innovator in the short story form, that explore one…
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After Washington Irving’s death in 1859, Pierre Irving compiled The Life and Letters of Washington Irving, which for three generations remained the standard biographic portrait. This work traces the relationships…
This definitive biography of an extraordinary nineteenth-century army officer and author includes 25 b&w photographs and 16 maps.
Richard Irving Dodge
Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge’s journals, written with utter candor for his eyes only, are the fullest firsthand account we possess of Gen. George Crook’s Powder River Expedition against the…
In these journals, Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, a well-known chronicler of western history and Plains Indians, provides an important account of conditions in Indian Territory from 1878 to 1880, a…
In summer 1883, General William Tecumseh Sherman took Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, his former aide-de-camp, with him on a 10,000-mile inspection tour across the northern tier of territories, on to…
Offers by far the most detailed account yet available of the conflicting claims, interests, and populations that converged on the Black Hills during the key transitional period before the Great…
