The Mountains. By Porte Crayon in 1872 (cover title).
by [West Virginia]. CRAYON, Porte (pseudonym of David Hunter Strother)
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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No place, no publisher, no date (ca. 1872). 8vo, 21, [1] pp. Stapled, printed, stiff paper wraps. Not found in OCLC as of 2/18/2022.
Lightly soiled, soft vertical crease throughout, brief foxing, otherwise very good.
Apparently an unrecorded offprint from a 10 part series originally published in Harper's Monthly beginning in 1872. Strother, an illustrator, journalist, & Confederate brevet brigadier general, is sometimes credited with introducing the new State of West Virginia to the rest of the country. Although fictionalized, his account is based on actual events.
"On a pleasant day in June we started from the Berkeley Springs on a pleasure excursion to the Allegheny Mountains. Our equipage was an old-fashioned Troy coach, drawn by four horses, and painted red. The coachman was a native mountaineer, whose eccentricities would furnish material for a readable chapter ..." ~Excerpted from page 1.
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- Title
- The Mountains. By Porte Crayon in 1872 (cover title).
- Author
- [West Virginia]. CRAYON, Porte (pseudonym of David Hunter Strother)
- Format/Binding
- Stapled paper wraps.
- Book Condition
- Used
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- 1
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- Paperback
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- no publisher
- Place of Publication
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- Date Published
- ca. 1872
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- West Virginia, Porte Crayon, David Hunter Strother, Berkeley Springs, Travel, Tourism, Exploration, Allegheny Mountains
- Bookseller catalogs
- Trade Catalogues; Travel, Tourism, Exploration; Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Virginia;
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