Post by Diane Merkel on Oct 20, 2008 20:28:24 GMT -6
This was sent to the LBHA email distribution list from Don Schwarck:
If you have any questions or can help Paul with this request, please PM or email me and I'll put you in touch with him.
Diane
P.S. Here's an illustration that was sent along with the request.
Author/publisher Paul Horsted of Custer, SD, is looking for the following items for possible use as illustrations in a forthcoming book tentatively titled Crossing the Plains with Custer. The new book will be a companion volume to the earlier book, Exploring With Custer: The 1874 Black Hills Expedition, which Paul co-authored with Ernest Grafe. The new book will follow Custer's route to and from Ft. Lincoln and the Black Hills during the 1874 Expedition and is scheduled for release late in 2009.
If you own any of the following publications (in their original form, no recent reprints, please), or know where examples might be found, your assistance would be appreciated. Payment for copying and use, free books, collection credit, etc., are negotiable. All inquiries will be held in strict confidence.
1. Original copies of Army manuals, dated 1880s or earlier. An example might be Upton's 1874 United States Army Cavalry (or Infantry, or Artillery) Tactics; or Cavalry Equipment 1874 Ordnance Memoranda No. 18.
2. Original copies of line drawings, schematics, or illustrations (other than photographs) of Army wagons, horse or mule equipments, and any other gear such in use by the cavalry, infantry or artillery around 1874. This gear may have been illustrated in publications dating from the Civil War into the 1880s. His interest is in illustrations of everything from uniform buttons to wagon wheels. (For example, line drawings of Gatling gun, Colt & Schofield revolvers, Springfield carbine/rifle, tents, farrier tools, McClellan saddle, ammunition boxes, canteens.)
3. Original catalogs of civilian, frontier or trade goods from the 1870s, which might describe or illustrate items such as pocket knives, pocket watches, harmonicas, canned goods, liquor (bottles), tobacco products, etc., or other personal items carried by civilians or soldiers on the frontier.
4. Also of interest are surviving examples of 1870s-era .45-70/.55-70 or .45 Colt cartridge boxes, hardtack boxes, or other boxes of this time which used square nails in their construction.
If you have any questions or can help Paul with this request, please PM or email me and I'll put you in touch with him.
Diane
P.S. Here's an illustration that was sent along with the request.