Our Western Border in Early Pioneer Days: Containing the True Account of Western Frontier Life and Struggle in the Most Heroic Age of America (1902 Edition)
by McKnight, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: Educational Company. Used - Good. 1902. Hardcover. Decorated cloth. Tall octavo. xvi & 752 pp. Illustrated. Some shelf wear and scuffing to boards, moderate sunning to spine, chipping and fraying to extremeties of spine, corners bumped. Front hinge starting. Pages toned and brittle, with minor chipping along some edges. Altogether a copy in Good condition. Good. (Subject: Americana & Regional History).
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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- C63936
- Title
- Our Western Border in Early Pioneer Days: Containing the True Account of Western Frontier Life and Struggle in the Most Heroic Age of America (1902 Edition)
- Author
- McKnight, Charles
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chicago: Educational Company
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Powell's Bookstores Chicago
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- Chipping
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- Octavo
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