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Frontier and Indian life and ; Kaleidoscopic lives / by Joseph Henry Taylor.
"The gathering of material or information for this book commenced with observations and inquiry gleaned during an enlisted term as a soldier along the Iowa and Minnesota border in the latter party of 1863; a trip up the Platte River Valley in the winter, and a journey to Fort Randall, and up th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Washburn, North Dakota] :
Washburn's Fiftieth Anniversary Committee,
[1932]
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| Edition: | Fiftieth anniversary edition. |
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| Online Access: | https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/562549-a |
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"The gathering of material or information for this book commenced with observations and inquiry gleaned during an enlisted term as a soldier along the Iowa and Minnesota border in the latter party of 1863; a trip up the Platte River Valley in the winter, and a journey to Fort Randall, and up the James or Dakota River in the spring of 1864; an overland journey across the Great Plains to Colorado and New Mexico during the summer of the same year, with a residence in and around the Rocky Mountain capital the winter that followed; a frontier residence in northwestern Iowa and the prairies of central Nebraska in 1866-1867; and a continuous residence in Dakota Territory from 1867 until after division and statehood in 1889."--Preface. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally copyrighted in 1889. "Represents a true reproduction of J.H. Taylor's Frontier and Indian Life, and Kaleidoscopic lives." With original cuts and etchings which were preserved by the State Historical Society and typographical and grammatical errors appearing in the original editions. |
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327 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |