The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
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A paperback edition of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With ...
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A paperback edition of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With numerous maps, tables and black & white photos, drawings and reproductions of art works; indexed. Includes a foreword by Doyce Nunis. The author died at age 38 in 1976 following surgery for a brain tumor. --- In wraps with sepia image of Albert Bierstadt's "The Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy but with a little sunning & a speck of brown soiling to covers and prior owner's signature & info. to title page.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvi, 364, (2) pages
Product Info
ISBN: 0252009681
ISBN-13: 9780252009686
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Year: 1982
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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