Item #403833 A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources. The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn on 1854. Rev. C. B. BOYNTON, T. B. MASON.

A Journey through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and Other Resources. The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn on 1854

Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855. 8vo. 216 pp. Lithographed folding frontispiece map. Modern green gilt-lettered cloth. Map a bit worn at edges, otherwise very good internally. Item #403833

FIRST EDITION of the second book on the Kansas Territory, and the first made from first-hand observation. The work includes a voyage up the Missouri; Indian fighting; hunting on the plains and Rockies; and winter adventures on the prairies. Eberstadt 137:41; Graff 376; Howes B677; Streeter sale IV:1990; Wagner-Camp-Becker 250; Wheat, Transmississippi West 4.

Price: $600.00

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