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Heading: (Custer, George Armstrong & The Massacre)
Author: **
Title: Scrapbook
Place: Various places
Publisher:
Date: Various dates
Item # : 208558
Sale Number   424
Lot Number   13
Sale Name    
The Library of Roger Wagner
Sale Date   03/18/2010
Price realized   $ 168
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Description:
Scrapbook formed by using the first half of Public Instructions and School Law, Michigan, 1852, into the first third of which have been pasted numerous newspaper clippings regarding the Custer fight and its aftermath, nearly all from 1876. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
Interesting selection of contemporary accounts of the massacre, the reasons for it, the folly of our Indian policy, the brave conduct of the soldiers, etc. Custer would have been attending school in Michigan at the time the book on school law was published.
Condition:
Some wear to covers, including a split front joint; front hinge repaired with cloth tape; else very good.
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