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The First West: Writing from the American Frontier, 1776-1860
by Watts, Edward and David Rachels (editors)
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0195141334
- ISBN 13
- 9780195141337
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About This Item
New York, New York, USA: Oxford University Press, 2002. CF1 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, ousnd copy in monochrome illustrated yellow wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very, very light fading on the spine. A colleciton of late 18th and early 195h century American writing on the "West, the land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. During this period, these types of writings were ubiquitous and reflect the historic events in the early westward movement as well as attitudes to the process. The selection of documents ranges from government documents and treaties through land-promotion schemes, white depictions of natives, native accounts of whites, easterners describing westerners, westerners describing easterners, and literary texts. The authors include Thomas Jefferson, William Bartram, Margaret Fuller, Black Hawk, Caroline Kirkland, Thomas Bangs Thorpe, and Abraham Lincoln. Suggestions for further reading, 944p. . Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- The First West: Writing from the American Frontier, 1776-1860
- Author
- Watts, Edward and David Rachels (editors)
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0195141334
- ISBN 13
- 9780195141337
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, USA
- Date Published
- 2002
- Keywords
- Nonfiction Non-fiction American History American Intellectual History American Cultural History American Social History Historical Documents Primary Documents Literary History Literature US Literature American Literature Anthology 19th Century Nineteenth
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Indians; Literature / US Literature; History: U.S. / Old West; History: U.S. / Frontier Life; History: U.S. / Pioneer Era; Literature / Literary Anthologies; American Indians / American Indian History; Literature / History of Literature;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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