Isbn: 9780803289055 - army letters from an officer's wife, 1871-1888 (10 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 387 pages, depicts army life on the American frontier in the late 19th century. Reprint edition, Introduction by Sandra L. Myres. Light cover wear, edges lightly spotted. Illustrated by I. W. Taber from contemporary photographs. (illustrator).

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Later Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Plastic layer on front is bubbling along right front edge and back left edge, bumps and shelf wear.

Wraps. Zustand: good. First Printing. 21 cm, 387 pages, wraps, illus., some wear to covers, former owner's stamp on flyleaf, pencil notations on p. xvii and p. 5. In the late 19th Century, the 3rd Infantry fought in the west in campaigns against the Apache and Comanche tribes. Fayette Washington Roe, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army. Regimental Adjutant, Aide-de-Camp. Captain in the line, Lieutenant Colonel in the Staff, United States Volunteers. 1850-1916. Married Frances Mack. Frances Roe wrote Army Letters from an Officer's Wife (1909) a detailed description of life in the frontier army. Lieutenant Colonel Fayette Washington Roe (1850-1916) Born in Virginia Captain s Clerk, US. Navy 1864-65 Cadet, US. Military Academy 1867-71 Second Lieutenant June 12, 1871 First Lieutenant March 15, 1883 Captain July 4, 1892 Lieutenant Colonel (US Volunteers) May 9, 1898 Honorably discharged from Volunteer Service September 15, 1898 Retired December 13, 1898 Served with 24th United States Infantry Regiment 1871 Served with 3rd United States Infantry Regiment 1871-98 Regimental Adjudant, 3rd United States Infantry Regiment 1885-88.…

8vo. Original pictorial card covers (softback) (VG). Pp. xvii + 387, with b&w illus (no inscriptions).

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Bison Books paperback edition with an introduction by Sandra L. Myers, 1981, in overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage. Internally clean. Binding tight and appears little read, no annotations or inscriptions; text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Not an old library book. Photograph available. I. W. Taber (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her sprightly account of frontier life begins. As a western army wife Frances Roe found herself in the shadow of the Rockies-Lt. Roe was stationed at Piegan Agency, Montana Territory, as well as in the Cheyenne country of Colorado and Indian Territory-and her book is filled with the beauty of the wilderness. She records the problems of camp and garrison life with servants, sand, and shortages, and the pleasures of parties and new friends, of hunting, fishing, and camping trips, and of long romps with her dog Hal. One chapter reports a fine summer's outing to twelve-year-old Yellowstone National Park in 1884.In the cavalcade of men's western memoirs, books written by frontier women have too often gone unheralded and almost unnoticed. Yet women were among the keenest observers of the nineteenth-century West and its inhabitants, as seen nowhere better than in Frances Roe's vivid account of life with the western army.…

Zustand: New. Remininscences of army wives constitute a distinct genre of the literature of the American West. Written by a western army wife, this book records the problems of camp and garrison life with servants, sand, and shortages, and the pleasures of parties and ne.