Hildreth, James (fl. circa 1836)
Dragoon Campaigns to the Rocky Mountains; being a History of the Enlistment, Organization, and First Campaigns of the Regiment.

New York: Wiley & Long, 1836.

First edition, the first book to mention a poker game in English, octavo, 288 pages, bound in contemporary textured light brown cloth, some water stains to title, foxing throughout, 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.

Graff 1885; Howes H471; Sabin 31769; Wagner-Camp 59.

"'Let's go to Rodger's,' said Corporal Stephens, 'and talk about old times, over a venison steak and a drop of whiskey.' 'Not so,' said Benson. 'The M---- lost some cool hundreds at poker,* in camp, and is to meet some brother officers at Rodger's to night. So that won't do.' *A favorite game of cards at the south and west." (cf. the present volume, page 128)