This auction is for a hardback book - illustrated - First Edition:
William Tecumseh Sherman
and the
Settlement of the West
by Robert G. Athearn
University of Oklahoma Press
Copyright 1956 by the University of Oklahoma Press
First edition
371 pages
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Our Plains Resemble Your Seas
New Routes and Circumstances
We Cannot Afford Perfect Protection
And I Can See for Myself
These Awful Distances
A Restless People Branching Out
The Most Difficult Problem
A Concerted and Mischievous Design
Everybody Is Scared
Popular Idols Fall
The Earnest Wish of the Government
Time Is Helping Us
With Vindictive Earnestness
The Dreaded Banishment to Washington
One of the Meanest Acts
We Ar Placed Between Two Fires
Death Must Be Meted Out
To Ring Down the Curtain
Bibliography
Index
Scuffs, rubs and dents to covers and edges
Outer margins of covers are faded - see images
Hand-written name, notes and price on first page
Soiling
Binding is good
Book weighs 1 pound 9.7 ounces - prior to packaging
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