New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

First edition, first printing.

1977 date printed to the title page, $15.00 price printed to the jacket's flap.

Forty-four illustrations.

The detailed letters and diaries of the couple depict the realistic daily life of an officer's life in Custer's cavalry. Captain Barnitz and his wife describe various expeditions, forts, other officers and soldiers (with their brief biographies), military engagements, camps, Indians, locations, terrain, travel, and more during their time with Custer.

Fine in golden-tan linen with black embossed titles to the spine, red-and-yellow headband and tail-band; in a very good dust jacket with a one inch creased tear to the upper edge of the front panel, very short tears and rubs to the upper and lower spine edges, and some fading to the spine panel; original printed $15.00 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Yale Western Americana Series, 30. 

Swinford 15.

Octavo; 302 pages; appendixes; index.

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