Jeff Broome, Custer Into the West. 1st ed., Signed

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Custer Into the West is Jeff Broome’s account, with primary sources, of George Armstong Custer’s first expedition into the west after the Civil War.

Custer’s western expedition included exhausting marches and harrowing encounters with natives. Most significant may have been the discovery of the bodies of Lieutenant Lyman Kidder and his detachment after the famous “Kidder Massacre.”

Broome presents, and publishes for the first time, the journal and maps of Lieutenant Henry Jackson, Custer’s Itinerary Officer. The almost daily graphic maps permit the reader to follow Custer’s Expedition from Kansas into Colorado with day-to-day and point-to-point accuracy.

Custer Trails Series, Volume Eleven. Copies of this limited edition (only 55 copies) are very scarce, especially in this lovely condition. Near fine; dust jacket. Signed.

Broome, Jeff. Custer Into the West: With the Journal and Maps of Lieutenant Henry Jackson. El Segundo, Ca.: Upton & Sons, 2009. Limited edition, #41/55, 238(1)p., illustrations, illustrated end pages, maps.