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Across the plains in '64 : incidents of early days west of the Missouri River, Two thousand miles in an open boat from Fort Benton to Omaha, Reminiscences of the pioneer period of Galena, General Grant's old home / by John S. Collins.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, John S. (John Sloan), 1839-1910.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Collins, John S. (John Sloan), 1839-1910.
- Collins, John S.
- McNear, James.
- Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
- Grant, Ulysses S.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Dechert, Robert (donor)
- Murphey, A. G. (stamp, Philadelphia, PA.)
- Physical Description:
- 151 pages, 1 unnumbered page : facsimile ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Omaha, Neb. : National Printing Company, 1904.
- Notes:
- Dedication "to the memory of James McNear" on p. 3.
- Local Notes:
- Inserted in a pocket at end: a ms. letter of Collins to A.G. Murphey, previous owner of this copy, dated Omaha, 7 July 1904, containing a reference to the Galena days of General U.S. Grant and to his publication plans for the present work; and a sale prospectus of the Mountain Meadow Road ranch in Wyoming.
- On p. [8], not as issued, is a mounted photo of the author dated in ink 1864.
- Cited in:
- Graff, 809
- OCLC:
- 6564670
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