Comprising Vol. VII of the Collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota, 8vo. Frontispieces, plates and maps. Original cloth (a few discreet repairs, some slight rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Major General Hugh Lenox Scott (1853-1934), Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army (signature in Vol. VII, extensive annotations, see below); Library of Congress Bureau of American Ethnology Library (release stamp, shelf label on spines).

FIRST EDITIONS. MAJOR GENERAL HUGH LENOX SCOTT'S COPY WITH HIS ANNOTATIONS or underlinings on some 50 pages in chapters relating to Dakota Pioneers. After Scott's graduation from West Point, he was commissioned in the Cavalry and he served on the Western frontier for some 20 years, chiefly with the 7th United States Cavalry. He was assigned to the quarters only recently vacated by the widow of George Armstrong Custer, and was sent to mark gravesites for Custer's men killed in the Battle of Little Big Horn. 

[With:] LIBBY, O. G., editor. The Arikara Narrative of the Campaign Against the Hostile Dakotas June, 1876. Bismarck, ND: n.p., 1920. Provenance: Library of Congress (release stamp, shelf label on spine). (See lot 481 for Elizabeth Custer's copy.)