My Sixty Years on the Plains, Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting

New York: Forest and Stream Publishing, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 244 pp, with Introduction by Hilma S. Sieber, six full-page b/w plates by Russell and two photographic portraits. Moderate rubbing to spine and edges of boards, corners lightly bumped, internally sound and clean. Memoir of William Thomas Hamilton (1822-1908), who became an Indian fighter in the 1850s and traveled extensively in California, the Northwest, and the Plains. In 1858 he set up a trading post in what became Missoula, Montana and, while trading, held various jobs as county sheriff, Indian agent, and army scout. Graff (1759) comments that Hamilton was renowned as a skilled sign-talker and that he "tells some mighty fine stories." See also Yost 24; Howes H-139; Rader 1755. (Inventory #: 23012)