Post by keogh on Oct 20, 2008 16:07:42 GMT -5
Attached is a message from our friend and author Paul Horsted author of Exploring with Custer. He is working on the the rest of the Black Hills Expedition by covering the trek back and forth across the Dakota Plains. He is looking for original Cavalry Manuels, and other primary information for use in his upcoming book....Crossing the Plains With Custer.
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Author/publisher Paul Horsted of Custer, SD, is looking for the following items for possible use as illustrations in a forthcoming book...Tentatively entitled Crossing the Plains with Custer, the new book will be a companion volume to the earlier book, Exploring With Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition, which Paul co-authored with Ernest Grafe. The book will follow Custer's route to and from Ft. Lincoln and the Black Hills during the 1874 Expedition, and is scheduled for release late in 2009.
If you own any of the following publications (in their original form, no recent reprints, please), or know where examples might be found, your assistance would be appreciated. Payment for copying and use, free books, collection credit, etc. are negotiable...all inquiries held in strict confidence.
Paul Horsted may be contacted at horsted@dakotaphoto.com or by calling 605-673-3685. Feel free to email or call with any questions about the project.
1. Original copies of Army manuals, dated 1880's or earlier. An example might be be Upton's 1874 United States Army Cavalry (or Infantry, or Artillery) Tactics; or Cavalry Equipment 1874 Ordnance Memoranda No. 18.
2. Original copies of line drawings, schematics, or illustrations (other than photographs) of Army wagons, horse or mule equipments, and any other gear such in use by the cavalry, infantry or artillery around 1874. This gear may have been illustrated in publications dating from the Civil War into the 1880's....our interest is in illustrations of everything from uniform buttons to wagon wheels. (For example, line drawings of Gatling gun, Colt & Schofield revolvers, Springfield carbine/rifle, tents, farrier tools, McClellan saddle, ammunition boxes, canteens.)
3. Original catalogs of civilian, frontier or trade goods from the 1870's, which might describe or illustrate items such as pocket knives, pocket watches, harmonicas, canned goods, liquor (bottles), tobacco products, etc. or other personal items carried by civilians or soldiers on the frontier.
4. Also of interest are surviving examples of 1870's-era .45-70/.55-70 or .45 Colt cartridge boxes, hardtack boxes, or other boxes of this time which used square nails in their construction.
Please contact Paul Horsted if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for your help
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Author/publisher Paul Horsted of Custer, SD, is looking for the following items for possible use as illustrations in a forthcoming book...Tentatively entitled Crossing the Plains with Custer, the new book will be a companion volume to the earlier book, Exploring With Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition, which Paul co-authored with Ernest Grafe. The book will follow Custer's route to and from Ft. Lincoln and the Black Hills during the 1874 Expedition, and is scheduled for release late in 2009.
If you own any of the following publications (in their original form, no recent reprints, please), or know where examples might be found, your assistance would be appreciated. Payment for copying and use, free books, collection credit, etc. are negotiable...all inquiries held in strict confidence.
Paul Horsted may be contacted at horsted@dakotaphoto.com or by calling 605-673-3685. Feel free to email or call with any questions about the project.
1. Original copies of Army manuals, dated 1880's or earlier. An example might be be Upton's 1874 United States Army Cavalry (or Infantry, or Artillery) Tactics; or Cavalry Equipment 1874 Ordnance Memoranda No. 18.
2. Original copies of line drawings, schematics, or illustrations (other than photographs) of Army wagons, horse or mule equipments, and any other gear such in use by the cavalry, infantry or artillery around 1874. This gear may have been illustrated in publications dating from the Civil War into the 1880's....our interest is in illustrations of everything from uniform buttons to wagon wheels. (For example, line drawings of Gatling gun, Colt & Schofield revolvers, Springfield carbine/rifle, tents, farrier tools, McClellan saddle, ammunition boxes, canteens.)
3. Original catalogs of civilian, frontier or trade goods from the 1870's, which might describe or illustrate items such as pocket knives, pocket watches, harmonicas, canned goods, liquor (bottles), tobacco products, etc. or other personal items carried by civilians or soldiers on the frontier.
4. Also of interest are surviving examples of 1870's-era .45-70/.55-70 or .45 Colt cartridge boxes, hardtack boxes, or other boxes of this time which used square nails in their construction.
Please contact Paul Horsted if you have any questions or comments. Thanks for your help