40. BOURKE, John G. An Apache Campaign in the
Sierra Madre. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1886. vi, 112 + [16] pp., frontispiece, 12 engraved plates.
12mo, original brick-colored pictorial cloth with gilt
title on spine. Minor shelfwear and rubbing to spinal
extremities, else fine.
First
edition. Graff 365. Howes B652. "[Bourke was] one of
the last in the tradition of humanist-scientific military
officers who recorded the American West....[His] historical
work is vivid, observant, and humorous, and his
ethnological studies remain invaluable to modern scholars"
(Lamar, p. 117). Munk (Alliott), p. 35. Rader 424.
Pingenot: A vivid account of Crook’s expedition to
the Sierra Madre in 1883 to subdue the Chiricahua Apaches
who were terrorizing Arizona settlers. The author, an army
officer of wide experience among the Indians of New Mexico,
Arizona, and northern Mexico, methodically recorded the
customs of the Indians he observed. One of the scarcer
Bourke titles.
($250-500)