208 pp. Steel-engraved frontispiece portrait. 8x5½, original terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt including a gilt-stamped portrait of the author on the front cover, brown endpapers. First Edition.

Signed by Captain Jack Crawford on the front preliminary page. Captain Jack Crawford was better known as "The Poet Scout of the Black Hills," and succeeded Buffalo Bill Cody as the chief of the Indian scouts during the Sioux campaign of 1876. With rubberstamp on free endpaper verso, "Autograph Copies, Without Extra Charge, Address the Author, 235 Kearny St., San Francisco." Provenance: From the library of William Augustus Brewer.