Lot 97

[CUSTER’S LAST STAND AND THE JAMES GANG]. Rare-to-Find Rag ...

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[CUSTER?S LAST STAND AND THE JAMES GANG]. Rare-to-Find Rag Paper Editions of the ?St. Louis Globe-Democrat?, New Series. Vol. 2, No. 52. St. Louis, July 10, 11, 1876. Two issues of this daily newspaper (both issues are no. 52). Each issue is 8 folio pages on special limited edition rag paper. Each page approximately 584 x 458 mm.?Both issues bound together, but with chipping to left margins, indicating that these had been excised from a book. Minor occasional rubbing, one horizontal and one vertical crease, a small sticker (?Sec. of State?) on the front page of each issue, obscuring a few words. On p. 1 of the July 10 issue is an article about Custer?s Last Stand (?Scalped Soldiers / Indian Warfare, With its Attendant Horrors. / Graphic Description of the Little Horn Battle-Field??). On p. 3 of this same issue is an article about a train robbery by the James Gang (?High Times / Gad?s Hill and Long Point Eclipsed. / A Train on the Missouri Pacific Taken Possession of. / Freebooters Hold it for Over an Hour??). On p. 1 of the July 11 issue are articles about the aftermath of Custer?s Last Stand (?Washington / Thousands of Volunteers Anxious to Fight Indians. / Army Officers Object to a Division of the Honors. / The Dead Look Upon the Appropriation Bills??) and the James Gang train robbery (?The Night Riders / The Movements and the Plans of Their Pursuers. / Bacon Montgomery a Match for the Train Robbers??).