Price, Rose Lambart:

$875 · Offered by William Reese Company

A SUMMER ON THE ROCKIES. Sir Rose Lambart Price, a major in the Royal Marines, came to America in 1897 to accompany his friend, American General John Coppinger, on a tour of U.S. Army posts in Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and South Dakota. Price was a close observer of both the military and civilian scenes. Traveling when he did, and with members of the U.S. Army, the group's encounters with indigenous tribes were frequent and rarely friendly. Further, Lambart was a personal friend of George Custer, and gives an account of visiting his grave at Little Bighorn (where he had been invited to accompany Custer's unit, but could not). He also describes a visit to Yellowstone. "An Englishman's story of his travels in the American West, telling, among other things, of the Johnson County War" - Adams. A little-known but most interesting work.

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