TEN THOUSAND MILES OF TRAVEL, SPORT AND ADVENTURE

1 volume. First edition 1869.

Full-leather bevelled covers.

Morocco gilt titles.

Raised bands with gilt panel vignettes.

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New marbled endpapers.

xiv, 275 pages.

Frontispiece plate.

Engraved title vignette.

Captain Frederick Trench Townhsend (1838-1924) was a British Army

officer in the 2nd Life Guards. He was hunter and traveler who came

to North America to hunt for 10 months in the late 1860s. Townshend

journeyed more than 10,000 miles across America, not counted his sea

voyage from England. He landed in New York, went to Rhode Island, and

then hunted deer and wolf in the Adirondacks. He shot wild fowl on the

Nebraska plains and re-armed for the west in Omaha. On the northern

plains he shot buffalo, antelope, and black-tailed deer. In the Rocky Mountains

Townshend hunted big-horn sheep and wolf. A complete list of the animals he

hunted and fished is listed in the appendix. In the late 1860s, Sherman and

Sheridan had not yet defeated the Sioux and hunting in the northern plains

was quite dangerous. Townshend obtained US Army permission for his hunting

trip and did have military escort. Part of this book decribes the Indians he

encountered and observed as well as his impressions of western army forts

and US troops. In addition to being a desirable hunting and sporting book,

this title is also of interest to collectors of Americana due to Townshend's

descriptions of several American cities in addition to the plains and Rockies. 

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