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Empire on the Platte.
by Crabb, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- BINDING/CONDITION: olive-beige cloth with maroon cover vignette and spine text; owner's name on the half-title page, a small 'sp
- Seller
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Oroville, California, United States
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About This Item
Cleveland, Ohio:: World Publishing Company, 1967.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: olive-beige cloth with maroon cover vignette and spine text; owner's name on the half-title page, a small 'splash' stain on the top edge of the text block, otherwise a Very Good+ book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Index. Illustrated map endpapers. Description: Illustrations include black and white drawings by Ernest L Reedstrom and many historic photographs. Research by Burt Sell. ''One of the most nearly complete histories of the feud between the Olives and Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum, with some material on Doc Middleton, Jesse James, and Johnny Ringo'' (from Ramon Adams, Six-Guns number 506). ''Places the river and its valley in better focus than any other book that has come to my attention. Since the Platte River's watershed covers one-half of Nebraska, the Platte story can also be considered the Nebraska story.'' (Frank B Morrison, Governor, State of Nebraska).
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- Bookseller
- The Bookworm
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 062918
- Title
- Empire on the Platte.
- Author
- Crabb, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - BINDING/CONDITION: olive-beige cloth with maroon cover vignette and spine text; owner's name on the half-title page, a small 'sp
- Edition
- 1st Edition, so stated.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- World Publishing Company
- Place of Publication
- Cleveland, Ohio:
- Date Published
- 1967.
- Pages
- 373 pages.
- Size
- 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall)
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The Bookworm
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Oroville, California
About The Bookworm
We are a small town bookstore, in the same location for over fifteen years. We strive to maintain a wide selection of books in lower price ranges.
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- Text Block
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- Spine
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