MAP OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING WITH FULL DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES...

Custer City, S. D.: Scott, 1897. First edition. [2],40pp., and folding map 29 x 31 inches. Original printed red stiff wrappers, some light darkening near staples, nick at bottom of front joint, some old red offsetting inside front wrapper Cover title: ROCKS, MINERALS, AND OTHER RESOURCES OF THE GOLDEN BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND WYOMING. Colored edition of Samuel Scott's large map of the Black Hills region, showing topographic features and various towns, including Deadwood, Sturgis, and Custer City. "For legibility, and for tracing streams to their sources, this is still a useful map of the Hills" - Jennewein. The accompanying pamphlet, sometimes referred to by the cover title, is "the first book on descriptive mineralogy of the Black Hills today ". J. Leonard Jennewein, BLACK HILLS BOOKTRAILS 229 . Howes S239. (Inventory #: 32365)