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Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster: Historic Places Associated with the Mining, Ranching, and Farming Frontiers in the Trans-Mississippi West
by FERRIS, Robert G. (series editor)
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Washington, DC: National Park Service, 1967. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and green rules. xiv, 320pp. Maps, numerous illustrations, map endpapers. Near fine. Tight and handsome first edition -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped to inner flyleaf is a Typed Letter Signed from National Park Service director George B. Hartzog Jr., who provides this book's preface. 1p, 8½" X 11", Washington, DC, 7 October 1971. Addressed to Ralph G. Newman (1912-98, founder of Chicago's noted Abraham Lincoln Book Shop). Very good. Original folds; faint stain at lower right. Approves at Ford's Theatre the production of a play Newman wanted to put on there titled "Mother Earth." Huge full signature in black ballpoint. Hartzog (1920-2008) directed the National Park Service from 1964 to 1972 and greatly enlarged its mission and presence.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44807
- Title
- Prospector, Cowhand, and Sodbuster: Historic Places Associated with the Mining, Ranching, and Farming Frontiers in the Trans-Mississippi West
- Author
- FERRIS, Robert G. (series editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Place of Publication
- Washington, DC
- Date Published
- 1967
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Western Americana;
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- Tight
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