The prairie logbooks
Subtitle: dragoon campaigns to the Pawnee villages in 1844, and to the Rocky Mountains in 1845
By: by Lieutenant J. Henry Carleton. Edited with an introduction by Louis Pelzer
Contributors: Pelzer, Louis, 1879-1946, editor; Kittredge, William A. (William Albion), 1891-1945, book designer; Caxton Club; Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.); R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company
Publisher: The Caxton Club
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
Subjects: Indians of North America; Wars; Dakota Indians; Pawnee Indians; United States. Army. Cavalry, 1st
Notes: At head of title: 1844-1845.

"Of this book, designed by William A. Kittredge, three hundred and fifty copies have been printed at the Lakeside press, R. R. Donnelley and sons company, Chicago, Illinois."

"Lieutenant James Henry Carlton's first Logbook was published anonymously and appeared first in the Spirit of the times, New York from November 9, 1844 to April 12, 1845 ... The Logbook describing the second expedition (commanded by S. W. Kearny) was first printed in the Spirit of the times from December 27, 1845 to May 30, 1846."--Introd., p.xiii-xiv.

"Appendix. Principal writing of the First regiment of United States dragoons from 1833 to 1847": p.293-295.