Benteen - Goldin Letters : Custer and the Little Big Horn : 1st Ed, Ltd to 300

Description: The Benteen - Goldin Letters On Custer and His Last Battle J. M. Carroll & Co. - 1st Paper Edition, 1974. States "Limited to 300 Copies" (Same year as the 1st Hardcover, which was also limited in number) ================================ Condition : Softcover. Like New. "New Old Stock" from a downsizing distributor I deal with. Removed from original shrink wrap for photographing. 312 pages, with index. States "To Aid Catalogers and Collectors - this title is printed in an edition limited to 300 copies." on back of title page. =============================== From an online review In the Fall of 1891 and Summer of 1896, two retired veterans of the Little Big Horn exchanged a remarkable series of letters. By that time they and everyone else who had been at the scene of Custer's defeat were part of legend. Captain Frederick W. Benteen of the Seventh Cavalry made history on June 25 and 26, 1876, when he came to the rescue of Major Marcus A. Reno's command. Private Theodore W. Goldin was with Reno during the battle and later helped to bury Custer and his comrades. Benteen and Goldin had retired from the army when their correspondence--rare for being between an officer and an enlisted man--began. Benteen's letters, collected by John M. Carroll, are an exciting record of the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Sioux War with tantalizing (and sometimes malicious) views of Custer and his wife, Libby; Reno; Generals Miles and Terry; and others. Goldin's replies to Benteen are lost, but Carroll has supplied revealing letters from him to the historians E. A. Brininstool and Fred Dustin touching on the same events. Also included are two accounts of the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Benteen, discovered after his death in 1898. The Benteen-Goldin Letters on Custer and His Last Battle, published in a limited edition in 1974 and edited and introduced by Carroll, is an important primary source for anyone interested in Custer. =================================== Thank you for supporting independent booksellers ! (not bulk resellers who don't know the first thing about what they are selling !) I pride myself on knowing my stock, accurate descriptions, and good packing !!! The Rock Top Book Shop and Bindery Cashtown, Pennsylvania ===================================== Thanks for Looking !!!----------------------------------------------------------Postage is free (within Continental US - others at cost) either by media mail or priority depending upon the final sale price of the items(s). I always include delivery confirmation, and will insure more expensive packages at my cost.Check my other auctions for Civil War related books, documents, and ephemera.Thank you for looking !===============================================

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