Author: UNRUH JR., JOHN D.
Title: The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
Description: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Softcover. ISBN: 0252009681. A paperback edition of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With numerous maps, tables and black & white photos, drawings and reproductions of art works; indexed. Includes a foreword by Doyce Nunis. The author died at age 38 in 1976 following surgery for a brain tumor. --- In wraps with sepia image of Albert Bierstadt's "The Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy but with a little sunning & a speck of brown soiling to covers and prior owner's signature & info. to title page.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvi, 364, (2) pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: 0252009681 >>American History & Politics
Title: The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
Description: Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1982. Softcover. ISBN: 0252009681. A paperback edition of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With numerous maps, tables and black & white photos, drawings and reproductions of art works; indexed. Includes a foreword by Doyce Nunis. The author died at age 38 in 1976 following surgery for a brain tumor. --- In wraps with sepia image of Albert Bierstadt's "The Oregon Trail" to front panel. --- A well-preserved copy but with a little sunning & a speck of brown soiling to covers and prior owner's signature & info. to title page.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvi, 364, (2) pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: 0252009681 >>American History & Politics
Price: US$ 14.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87163
- Book number: 87163