The History of Wyoming in Verse or Maughwauama: An Indian Word Meaning the Large Plains
[Sheridan?]: N.p, [ca. 1915]. First edition. 8vo, [4], 39pp., table of contents at rear. Blue, printed wrappers lettered in black. Very good with some toning and wear to edges, sticker-pull scuff to front wrapper and small stain to rear, else clean. Self-published collection of poetry and part of a planned set of three volumes, this likely the only that saw print. The preface is in verse and gives a good idea of the style and content of the work: "The History of Wyoming will be in three parts, Of which this small volume is only the first. These booklets will appear in due course of time, And later, their size will not be of the worst." ..."Wyoming has had its hunting and and trapping days, And its catle, its gold, and it now has its oil; Wyoming, when it has been robbed of all of this, Has still its fertile and productive soil." Poems include "Sheridan the Beautiful," "The Custer Hiway [sic]," "The Big Horn Mountains," and others. A scarce Wyoming imprint, Worldcat locates copies only at the University of Wyoming and Princeton. Item #4910
Price: $75.00