JOHN XANTUS: The Fort Tejon Letters 1857 -1
by [Xantus, Janos / John.] Zwinger, Ann
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0816509417
- ISBN 13
- 9780816509416
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About This Item
Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, 1986.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. Previously unpublished letters of this Hungarian immigrant who joined the US Army under an assumed name, a charlatan who managed to alienate most of the people he met, and yet one of the Smithsonian's most successful collectors of natural history specimens in the mid-19th century. From his station at Ft Tejon in California's Tehachapi Mountains, Xantus carried on a lengthy correspondence with Spencer Baird at the Smithsonian. Illustrated with drawings and photographs, notes, index. 255 pp.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28095
- Title
- JOHN XANTUS: The Fort Tejon Letters 1857 -1
- Author
- [Xantus, Janos / John.] Zwinger, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0816509417
- ISBN 13
- 9780816509416
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press,
- Place of Publication
- Tucson:
- Date Published
- 1986.
- Keywords
- california, Tehachapi Mountains, smithsonian,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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