This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... kansas miscellanies. battle corners. ft was in the closing days of the year 1888 that the--writer, in company with the Commissioner, visited the country which will be spoken of in these pages as "Battle Corners." In the school atlases in vogue in the early '50's there were patches of red or yellow ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... kansas miscellanies. battle corners. ft was in the closing days of the year 1888 that the--writer, in company with the Commissioner, visited the country which will be spoken of in these pages as "Battle Corners." In the school atlases in vogue in the early '50's there were patches of red or yellow covering the southwest corner of the State of Missouri, the northwest quarter of the State of Arkansas, the southeast quarter of what had recently become the Territory of Kansas, and the northeast quarter of what had been reduced to the present Indian Territory. In the Missouri quarter there was one dot--Springfield; in the Kansas corner a star--the Government military post of Fort Scott; in the fraction of Arkansas a dot--it was probably Fayetteville, though it may have been Fort Smith; in the Territory the solitary mark indicating Fort Gibson. Scattered about in this region the metes and bounds of which have been loosely indicated, were given in irregular lines the geographer's or map-maker's idea of the Ozark mountains; an elevated region rather than a regular chain. The map-makers left this country thus unmarked and void because man had left it so; and ten years later it is doubtful if there was in the United States at that time a country, nominally under the operations of law and settlement as long as the States of Arkansas and Missouri had been, more solitary than these "corners," more destitute of common roads and bridges; while as for railroads, the nearest approach as late as 1860 was far-away Rolla. Yet, suddenly, as one may say, these wooded hills and rugged hollows, these rough and rocky solitudes, the banks of these swift streams accustomed to no sound save their own dashings, the passes in these unfrequented mountains, the...
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 199 pages. Corners are lightly bumped, and there is scattered light wear at spine ends and corners. A few other light scuffs on covers. Volume remains tight and clean.
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Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. 199pp. Original gilt-stamped green cloth. Neat contemporary owner's name penned on front fly verso, spine ends and corners lightly worn, else near fine. Containing: "Battle Corners" (battles of Prairie Grove, Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek), "Jim Lane", "The World a School", and more.