ELLSWORTH, LINCOLN | The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt. New York: Privately Printed, 1916

Property from the Sporting and Travel Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson

ELLSWORTH, LINCOLN 

The Last Wild Buffalo Hunt. New York: Privately Printed, 1916

8vo (8 1/2 x 5 3/4 in.; 215 x 145 mm). Half-title, 32pp. letterpress text, 10 photographic plates; minor offsetting. Full blue cloth over boards, gilt-lettered leather label to spine, top edge gilt; minor rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine.

Scarce, fewer than 50 copies printed. "In the following pages I have tried to describe a phase of life that I saw and lived during the latter part of the great round-up of wild buffalo, the last in the United States," Ellsworth writes. "With the history of the buffalo lies woven the romance of the Indian. The two were inseparable. It is almost impossible for a civilized being to realize the value of the buffalo to the plains Indian" (Foreword). Lincoln Ellsworth was a polar explorer from the United States, and a major benefactor of the American Museum of Natural History.

REFERENCE:

Philips 112; Streeter sale 7:4131

PROVENANCE:

Samuel B. Webb (bookplate to front pastedown)