Across the Plains in '64. Incidents of Early Days West of the Missouri River - Two Thousand Miles in an Open Boat from Fort Benton to Omaha - Reminiscences of the Pioneer Period of Galena, General Grant's Old Home

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Lot #73Across the Plains in '64. Incidents of Early Days West of the Missouri River - Two Thousand Miles in an Open Boat from Fort Benton to Omaha - Reminiscences of the Pioneer Period of Galena, General Grant's Old Home

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Sale 420: Americana - Cartography - Gene Gammel Collection of Cowboy Toys & Memorabilia, Part I (#420) 01/21/2010 11:00 AM PST Closed
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Title:

Across the Plains in '64. Incidents of Early Days West of the Missouri River - Two Thousand Miles in an Open Boat from Fort Benton to Omaha - Reminiscences of the Pioneer Period of Galena, General Grant's Old Home

Author:

Collins, John S.

Place Published:

Omaha

Publisher:

National Printing Company

Date Published:

1904

Description:

151 pp. 7¾x5, original pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt. First Edition.

"For eleven years Collins was Post Trader at Ft. Laramie; he incorporates much unwritten history of the early trans-Missouri region." - Howes C594; Graff 809. With ownership signature of J.K. Moore, Jr., Fort Washikie, Wyoming, on front pastedown, with pencil note that he "worked in a bookstore, became a Senate page, bailiff for supreme court, went west for health, Wyoming pioneer, trader..." Howes C600; Graff 809.

Condition:

Light wear and soiling to cloth, front endpapers replaced; very good.

Item#:

206956

Headline:

Across the Plains in '64
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