62. CARTER, Robert G. The Old Sergeant’s
Story. Winning the West from the Indians and Bad Men in
1870 to 1876. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1926.
220 pp., frontispiece portrait, 7 plates. 8vo, original red
cloth. Fine copy. Laid in is an Annual Occupation Tax
Receipt made out to Charlton and dated at Brackett in
Kinney County April 30, 1894.
First
edition. Adams, Guns 383. Howes C194. Rader 610.
Pingenot: The story of John B. Charlton, Sergeant, "F"
Troop, 4th Cavalry, this work contains much on the
campaigns in West Texas, and contains much on Indian
fighting and outlaws. In 1920, Charlton, then a retired
stock raiser living in Uvalde, Texas wrote Captain Carter,
his former commander, beginning a correspondence and
friendship that lasted until the sergeant’s
death.
($150-300)