My Life and Experiences Among our Hostile Indians: A Record of Personal Observations, Adventures, and Campaigns Among the Indians of the Great West With Some Account of Their Life, Habits, Traits, Religion, Ceremonies, Dress, Savage Instincts, and Customs in Peace and War.  By Major General O.O. Howard. (United States Army (Retired)). Beautifully Illustrated with Full Page Engravings, Chiefly from Photographs Supplied by the Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, and a Series of Colored Plates Showing Indian Objects of Interest and Curiosity in Facsimile.  Sold Only to Subscribers.  1st Edition published in 1907 by A.D. Worthington & Company of Hartford, CT.  Contents pages and several illustrations pictured above.

Oliver Otis Howard (November 8, 1830 – October 26, 1909) was a career United States Army officer and a Union general in the Civil War. As a brigade commander in the Army of the Potomac, Howard lost his right arm while leading his men against Confederate forces at the Battle of Fair Oaks/Seven Pines in June 1862, an action which later earned him the Medal of Honor. As a corps commander, he suffered two major defeats at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg in May and July 1863, but recovered from the setbacks as a successful corps and later army commander in the Western Theater.

General Howard went on to represent the U.S. Army in Native American affairs. In 1872, he traveled to Arizona to negotiate a treaty with the Chiricahua Apache leader Cochise. Howard successfully stopped the violence between the Native Americans and the white settlers. Howard then left his presidential appointment to take command of the Department of the Columbia in Oregon. He oversaw the violent removal of Nez Perce from Oregon onto a small Idaho reservation. In 1904, he retired from the army as a major general at the age of sixty-four. He died in Vermont in 1909.

Condition: X-Library with spine replaced with library tape and other library repairs inside. Board tips and edges heavily rubbed. The first five pages of the book are rough. Front free endpaper and frontis portrait with tears and chipping.  Library white and clear (now yellow) tape reinforcing first few pages.  After that, other than some pencil lining in contents pages as pictured above and some small tears and a taped tear, the text is very good.  All text pages and illustrations present.  There are 7 chromolithograph plates and 27 b&w plates.  The book measures 9"  x  5  3/4" and has 570 pages.