Pike, James. The Scout and Ranger: Being the Personal Adventures of Corporal Pike of the Fourth Ohio Cavalry. As a Texas Ranger, In the Indian Wars, Delineating Western Adventure; Afterward a Scout and Spy, In Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, And in the Carolinas... Fully Illustrating The Secret Service. Cincinnati & New York: J.R. Hawley & Co., 1865. xi, 19-394 pp., errata, 25 plates. First Edition, mixed issue. The frontispiece is in a rectangle and the spine gilt is pictorial as in the second state, but the last words at the end of p.151 are "Indian Red" and this copy does have the errata leaf which are both first issue points. This copy has been restored with later cloth and endpapers and the original spine which has suffered some loss and original board panels have been laid back down. Thus, a good copy of a scarce and important book formerly owned by J.W. Vance of Co. B, 4th Ohio Cavalry. Jenkins: Basic Texas Books, 162: "This is an interesting reminiscence of a Yankee who became a Texas Ranger and later a Union spy. J. Frank Dobie said 'Pike tells a bully story to be ranked along with the personal narratives of those other Two (2) vivid ranger chroniclers, James B. Gillett and N.A. Jennings. ' In early 1859, Pike joined John Henry Brown's Texas Ranger company at Belton. During the next Two (2) years he saw almost continual action in the vicious Indian campaigns of that period. His recollections of these events are among the most vivid on record. When Texas voted to secede, Pike left Texas and joined the 4th Ohio Cavalry unit and saw extensive service. Pike was utilized by various commanders as a scout and as a spy within Confederate lines. Some of his escapades would be hard to believe if not proved by official war records. " Coulter 372. Dornbusch I, Ohio 56. Graff 3286, Raines p. 165, Rader 2671. Howes P-369

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