The Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi West 1865-1890 (Histories of the American Frontier series)
by WINTHER, Oscar Osburn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Good with no dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. An examination of the various means of transportation in use in the American West following the Civil War. Wagon roads, railroads and early auto transport are all addressed. With numerous black & white photos, drawings and maps (including maps of early wagon roads at endpapers). An entry in publisher's "Histories of the American Frontier" series. --- In orange and black cloth-covered boards with cover & spine titling in yellow and black. Volume has no dust jacket. --- A Good-only copy, with prior owner's frequent red underlinings throughout the text & his signature to half title, and with a little dulling to cover titling, otherwise a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xiv, 224 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85315
- Title
- The Transportation Frontier: Trans-Mississippi West 1865-1890 (Histories of the American Frontier series)
- Author
- WINTHER, Oscar Osburn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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