Author: COLLINS, JOHN S.
Title: My Experiences in the West
Description: Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g, fore and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece and B&W fold-out map at end of volume. John S. Collins was a prosperous leather merchant in Omaha, Nebraska, when he was appointed by President Grant to operate the trading post at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, in 1872. Collins had visited Fort Laramie on a previous trip in 1864. These are his memoirs of both trips. The volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 68. B&W Photographs. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. (xxxv), (v), 252 pp. As New with No dust jacket as issued .

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