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New York: American Home Missionary Society / John A. Gray, Printer, 1857. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 34pp. Bound in decorated yellow wrappers, sewn. 9" x 5.75" Sturtevant was then president of Illinois College. Here, he discusses emigration to the 16 non-slaveholding States. "For obvious reasons...we shall leave out of our estimate the colored population of the Free States. The free white population of the Free States was by the census of 1850, in round numbers, 13,000,000...." Re the American Home Missionary Society, "Its function is to follow such families to the heart of the Western wilderness, to the banks of the Columbia, and the gold fields of California....The very conception of a migration to Kansas, or Minnesota, or Oregon implies knowledge, resources, self-reliance in a very high degree....If an uncultivated, uneducated, laboring population does emigrate, it will not carry civilization with it....Its colonies will languish for ages in ignorance and barbarism...." [Sabin 93277].

Portland, Oregon: Champoeg Press, 1957. Hardcover. Fine. 76pp w/index; tipped frontispiece portrait of Father Joseph Giorda, S.J., rubricated title-page and chapter titles, one plate from a photograph, several other illustrations. Bound in pictorial red cloth, gilt spine title. 10" x 6.5" One of only 804 copies, designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy.

Denver: Sage Books, 1956. First edition thus. Softcover. Very Good. Three books bound as one. 32pp, map, 12 illustrations from photographs; 176pp, 25 illustrations from photographs; 261pp. Bound in printed pink wrappers; spine sunned. 8.5" x 5.5

Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chicago: Axtell, Bush & Co, 1900. First Editions. Softcover. Very Good. 32pp per issue, folio; occasional illustrations in the text. Present are: Vol. XXIII, Nos. 41, 43, 46, 47, 49, 51; Vol. XXIV, Nos. 6, 11, 12, 15, 19, 20, 23, 25, 31, 32, 35, 37, 38. Condition is very good to fine, except number 38 with edges of covers chipped. Bound in pictorial tan wrappers. 15" x 11" Motto: "Only the best is good enough for the Good Farmer and his family." These issues contain a variety of agricultural news and advice on specific topics, along with regular departments: Swine Department; Horse and Horseman; Dairy Department; Poultry Department; Horticulture; The Household; letters and literary contributions from readers; many illustrated advertisements.