Included in this lot is a hardcover 1891 first edition of "Recent Indian Wars", Under the Lead of Sitting Bull and Other Chiefs with a Full Account of the Messiah Craze and Ghost Dances" by James P. Boyd. The book provides a comprehensive account of major battles fought with the Native American Indians in the late 1800's. This book was written during the uprising of the Sioux Indians and their kindred tribes in the Dakotas in 1891. The time came when the Indians declared that they preferred extinction to slavery or to the adoption of colonial civilization. Boyd's book contains information on events and figures such as the Yuma Massacre of 1850, the Marias Massacre and Piegan torture, General Custer's Last Stand against the Sioux, the Nez Perce War of 1877, The Messiah Craze, Ghost Dance, Life of Sitting Bull, the Mountain Meadow Massacre. The book contains numerous illustration and features a brown cloth gold gilt cover and spine, the front cover and spine depict crossed bow and arrow, rifle and tomahawk. Cover and pages are in good condition, slight foxing noted, slight scuffing of cover edges, measures 5"W x 7.75"L x 1"D