Wagon Roads West: A Study of Federal Road Surveys and Construction in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1846-1869
by JACKSON, W. Turrentine
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair with no dust jacket
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press. Fair with no dust jacket. 1965. Softcover. A softcover reprint edition of a scholarly examination of the wagon roads used as a part of American westward expansion. With 21 maps showing the routes of many of them, and a foreword by W. H. Goetzmann. This work originally published by University of California Press in 1952. --- In wraps with image of a covered wagon drawn by oxen to front cover. --- An about-Fair copy with reading creases to spine, red highlighting on at least one page, conspicuous rubbing & a little soiling to covers and prior owner's signature to first page, else an intact, sound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xix, 422, (4, ads) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87425
- Title
- Wagon Roads West: A Study of Federal Road Surveys and Construction in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1846-1869
- Author
- JACKSON, W. Turrentine
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1965
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- Reprint
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- Fair
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- Jacket
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- Spine
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.