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[WESTERN FRONTIER] -- TAYLOR, Joseph Henry. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri. Pottstown, PA: By the Author, 1889. FIRST EDITION, SCARCE.
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[WESTERN FRONTIER] -- TAYLOR, Joseph Henry (1844-1908). Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri. Pottstown, PA: By the Author, 1889.
8vo (194 x 127 mm). Numerous illustrations. (Some occasional spotting, some toning.) Later quarter brown morocco (preserving the original backstrip of dark red calf gilt), marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION of Taylor’s account of living in North and South Dakota and the Northwestern territories between 1864 and 1889. The author printed this edition on an improvised hand-press. Howes T-68.
Property from the Collection of Robert P. Hunter, Jr. and Barbara Hunter, Alpharetta, Georgia