RICHARDSON Albert D., Beyond the Mississippi: from the Great River to the Great Ocean.

Beyond the Mississippi: from the Great River to the Great Ocean.

Life and adventure on the prairies, mountains, and Pacific Coast. With more than two hundred illustrations, from photographs and original sketches, of the prairies, deserts, mountains, rivers, mines, cities, Indians, trappers, pioneers, and great natural curiosities of the New States and territories. New Edition written down to summer of 1869. Hartford, Conn 1869. American Publishing Company. 8 (large), pp. [4], 620, numerous illustrations in the text and on separate plates (in woodcut form), 1 portrait in intaglio, folding map, hardcover, gilt lettering on spine.
A richly illustrated history of the "Wild West" during the pioneering period of the formation of the United States and its society. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869) was a well-known American journalist, Union spy, adventurer. He learned the described realities from autopsy. He colorfully described life on the prairie, rich nature and diverse landscape, towns, mines, Indians, etc. Good condition, non. traces of staining of the lower corner of the initial pages. 9199/11