The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
by UNRUH Jr., John D
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0252006984
- ISBN 13
- 9780252006982
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About This Item
Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1979. Hardcover. 0252006984 . A stated third printing of John D. Unruh, Jr.'s highly-regarded history of the movement of a quarter of a million emigrants across the Great Plains to settle in the American West in the 19th century. With 9 maps, 10 tables and dozens of 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 pale yellow cloth-covered boards with titling in gilt on brown spine block. Jacket bears wrap-around image of settlers, covered wagons and livestock traversing a western locale. --- An about Near Fine copy: clean, tightly-bound and unmarked. Unclipped ($22.50) jacket with several small tears and creasing to edges but remaining bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; xviii, 565, (2) pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86742
- Title
- The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
- Author
- UNRUH Jr., John D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0252006984
- ISBN 13
- 9780252006982
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Place of Publication
- Urbana
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0252006984
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>American History & Politics;
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