Sep 29, 2022 - Sale 2615

Sale 2615 - Lot 275

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(WEST.) Hal Reid. Custer's Last Fight: A New Historical Melodrama (caption title), with wrapper title "Gen. Custer's Last Fight." 4 photographic illustrations. 14, [2] pages. 4to (12 x 9 1/4 inches), original illustrated wrappers printed in red and blue; minor wear and dampstaining. No place, circa 1906

Additional Details

The program for a touring re-enactment of Custer's Last Stand staged by Montgomery Irving and "the largest Dramatic Company on the Road." Includes several pages of narrative and related articles; music for a song titled "Sleep, My Papoose, Sleep"; lyrics to several other songs; and a cast list for the "band of full blooded Indians, Cowboys, Scouts and Soldiers, horses, dogs and wolves." OCLC records 2 copies; none traced at auction.