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Author: Cooke, Philip St. George
Title: Scenes and Adventures in the Army; or, Romance of Military Life
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lindsay and Blakiston
Date Published: 1859
Description:

432 pp. 19x12 cm (7½x4¾"), original blindstamped cloth. Second Printing (or edition).

Well-written account of Cooke's military experiences in the West, which began in 1829, when as a young lieutenant he served on a military escort commanded by Major Bennett Riley to guard the Santa Fe traders from depredations. He later served at Fort Atkinson, and in 1845 led an escort for emigrants from Fort Leavenworth to Oregon, returning via Bent's Fort, at which point the narrative ends. Field notes that "The author was personally engaged in several battles with the Camanches and Sads and Foxes, and nearly half his volume is composed of narratives of events connected with Indian warfare." He gives a long account of Hugh Glass's adventures, and there is much interesting material on Walker, Fitzpatrick, and other old plainsmen. This second printing, two years after the first, is distinguished by Cooke's rank being given as colonel on the title-page, rather than lieutenant colonel. Field 359; Howes C740; Rittenhouse 132; Wagner-Camp 288:2.

Wear and soiling to cloth, some fading, small areas of cloth detaching from head and heel of spine, spine gilt worn; hinges cracked, front free endpaper missing, light foxing, mostly at beginning of volume, pervious owner's name on front flyleaf; about very good.