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| Title |
Theodore Roosevelt |
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55350 |
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Quarto |
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n.d. |
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| Category |
Literary |
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$27,500.00 |
Over 300 words in TR’s hand from his final draft of “The Winning of the West” – inserted in Volume 1 of the four volume Daniel Boone edition: “The Indians fought with the utmost boldness and ferocity, and with the utmost skill and caution … they came up so close that they shot the troops down as hunters slaughter a herd of standing buffalo…”
Autograph Manuscript page from “The Winning of the West” by Theodore Roosevelt, 8.5” x 14”, two horizontal folds. Heavily edited. Fine condition. Partially affixed onto a blank front-flyleaf of Volume 1 of the Daniel Boone Edition. Number 106 of 200 printed by G.P. Putnams Sons, Spring Season, 1900. “In the first volume of each set / is inserted a sheet of the author’s / Original manuscript.” Each volume is 7” x 10”, from 339-427 pages each, including 5 folding maps and 103 plates. Three-quarter morocco leather over green marbled boards; uniformly lightly faded spines with gilt lettering. Top edges gilt, all others uncut. Minor scuffing on covers and joints. Very Good condition.
From Volume 4, Chapter I. St. Clair’s Defeat, 1791, pages 37-38. Marked “37” in upper right. In part, “The Indians fought with outstanding the utmost boldness and ferocity, but and also with the utmost skill and caution. Under cover of the smoke of the heavy but harmless fire from the troops army they advanced close to the lines, andcame up so close that they shot the troops down as hunters slaughter a herd of standing buffalo. Watching their chance, they charged again and again with the tomahawk, making gliding in to close quarters, while their bewildered foes were still blindly firing at the into the smoke-shrouded woods … in a moment, without warning, dark faces frowned through the haze, the war-axes gleamed, and … on the frozen ground the weapons clattered as the soldiers fell … while the steady singing of the Indian bullets never ceased, and on every hand the bravest and steadiest fell lifeless, one by one. dead or wounded. … The officers behaved very well, cheering and encouraging their men; but they were the special targets of the Indians, and fell rapidly…
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