CAPTAIN JACK "THE POET SCOUT" CRAWFORD - BOOK SIGNED 12/01/1879 - HFSID 262892
Sale Price $450.00
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CAPTAIN JACK "THE POET SCOUT" CRAWFORD
Captain Jack Crawford signs his book The Poet Scout
Book signed: "Wishing you a Merry/Christmas and a/Happy New Year/I am/Yours Truly -/J.W.
Crawford/'Capt Jack'" on the front flyleaf, 208p, 6x8¼, hardcover. His first book of poetry,
The Poet Scout, H. Heller & Co., San Francisco: 1879. First Edition. Dated by him at
upper margin: "December 1st- 1879". John W. Crawford (1847-1917), known as "Captain
Jack, The Poet Scout", began writing verse and reciting his rhymes in the late 1870s and
became a popular lecturer. His first volume of verse, The Poet Scout, was published in
1879. "Captain Jack" had a colorful career in the Old West, beginning when he is said to have
been one of the first seven men to enter the Black Hills region after the ill-fated Custer
expedition. There, he served as Chief of Scouts for the Black Hills Rangers. During the
Sioux Wars of 1876, "Captain Jack" was a scout in New Mexico and also a special agent of
the Indian Bureau near San Marcial on the Rio Grande River. Crawford, who also wrote three
plays and over 100 short stories, had not learned to read and write until during the Civil War,
when he wounded at Spotsylvania and sent to a hospital. Cover worn. Signature page lightly
creased and soiled. Title page separated from binding. Dampstained at right margin of some
pages. Otherwise, fine condition.
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