Three score years and ten, life-long memoires of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the west..
by VAN CLEVE, CHARLOTTE OUISCONSIN
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Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith, 1888. First edition, signed by the author, 8vo, pp. 176; frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author; frontispiece partially water-stained, extremities and covers worn, some water-staining to upper and lower cover, else very good in original green cloth gilt. Charlotte Van Cleve (nee Clark, b. 1819) was the first white person born in Wisconsin and, as a child, accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Graff 4455; Howes V-21.
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- Three score years and ten, life-long memoires of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the west..
- Author
- VAN CLEVE, CHARLOTTE OUISCONSIN
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- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harrison & Smith
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- Date Published
- 1888
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- Fort Snelling , Wisconsin , ,
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- Minnesota;
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