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Author: Triggs, J. H.
Title: History of Cheyenne and Northern Wyoming Embracing the Gold Fields of the Black Hills, Powder River and Big Horn Countries...
Place Published: Omaha
Publisher:Printed at the Herald Steam Book and Job Printing House
Date Published: 1876
Description:

144 pp. With folding map. Pp. 132-144 are advertisements. (8vo) 22.6x15 cm (8¾x6"), original printed orange wrappers. First Edition.

A fundamental, and quite rare, work on the region, Triggs spent twelve years on the plains and in the Rocky Mountains, serving with the United States Cavalry, and as an independent prospector and mineralogist. He here recounts the early history of Cheyenne and "all portions of Wyoming Territory tributary thereto" from its earliest settlement as a Union Pacific Railroad depot, through the establishment of a provisional government, the lawless years of the "desperados" and the vigilance committee, to the eventual development of "a good class of law-abiding citizens" and responsible administration. "A very rare early imprint with some material on the vigilantes" (Adams). References: Adams, Six-Guns 2238; Adams, Herd 2331; Graff 4192; Howes T352.

Foxing to front wrapper; top corners of contents lightly creased; very good.