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Seventy Years on the Frontier, Alexander major' s Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border
by Ingraham, Colonel Prentis (editor)
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- first
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co, 1893. First Edition. Small Octavo. 325pp., (3)pp. ads. with a preface by Buffalo Bill (General W.F. Cody), Missour in its wild and uncultivated state, the mormons, Doniphan's expedition, trapping, Kit Carson, Denver of early days, Kansas City before the war, silver mining and of course, the Pony Express which was founded by Mr. Majors. A very handsome copy bound in dark blue pictorial gilt cloth over beveled boards, spine and top edge gilt, dark brown coated endpapers. Internally fresh.
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- Bookseller
- Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 021866
- Title
- Seventy Years on the Frontier, Alexander major' s Memoirs of a Lifetime on the Border
- Author
- Ingraham, Colonel Prentis (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rand, McNally & Co
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1893
- Keywords
- First Edition Buffalo Bill William F. Cody Pony Express Buffalo Bill Kit Carson Doniphan Expedition Mormons
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana; Regional America; Mormon;
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About the Seller
Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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Scottsdale, Arizona
About Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Beveled
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Gilt
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