Signature "Genl Custer / Fort Riley / Kansas" archivally affixed to the title page of a rare numbered, copiously illustrated Limited Edition Author-inscribed copy of "Sitting Bull & Custer," a drama telling the story of the Custer massacre from the Indian point of view, by A. McG. Beede, 50 pages, 6.5" x 9.5" (Bismarck, N.D.: Bismarck Tribune Company, 1913). Photograph Signed by author on verso "To Percy MacKay / from / A.McG. Beede," sepia, 3.75" x 5.75", archivally tipped in opposite title page. The book is bound in buck skin leather, with Custer's 7th Calvary crossed sabers emblem in gold on the front cover. Beautifully illustrated with line drawings, some in color, portraits and Indian pictographs. Edition of 1000, numbered in print "998" on verso of half-title. Paper clip rust marks at top of the first four pages and the tipped in photograph. Fine condition.

Educator, minister of the Gospel, missionary, author, poet, and playwright Aaron McGaffey Beede (1859-1934) received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from the Andover, Massachusetts, Theological Seminary in 1890. Superintendent of Schools in Alfred, Maine (1891-1894), he left to take over the Chair of Greek and German in a school in Redfield, South Dakota in 1895. In 1899, Beede moved to Fargo, North Dakota, to take over the post of Assistant President at Fargo College (1900-1901). Also, in 1899, Beede received a Doctorate degree in Philosophy from Wesleyan University in Bloomington, Illinois. In 1901, Beede returned to the ministry to do Episcopal missionary work in the Sioux County area. He was responsible for much of the Indian work in Sioux County between 1901-1916. Beede had learned the Sioux language at fifteen when he spent two years visiting the Sioux and Chippewa. 

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