My Story by Anson Mills, Brigadier General U.S. Army

My Story by Anson Mills, Brigadier General U.S. Army. Press of Byron S. Adams, 1918. Flexible black binding, black endpapers, ribbon bookmark. Signed by the author on the presentation page: to 'His friend Judge James R. Harper'. 412 pages, b/w photographs. Foreword by Lt. General Nelson A Miles. Overall good condition. Covers are worn, endpapers have become detached from inside covers, but are present. Inside pages are very good. an account of the author's long and varied career -- from flunking out of West Point, to his years as a surveyor in West Texas (he was responsible for platting and naming El Paso) to his military service in the Civil War and the Indian Wars, his design of a woven cartridge belt and his later years as the American Boundary Commissioner in El Paso.