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Add this copy of Remarks Made on a Tour to Prairie Du Chien, Threce to to cart. $1,250.00, very good condition, Sold by George Houle rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Palm Springs, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1831 by Columbus, Isaac N. Whiting, 1831..
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First edition, first issue. 8vo. Contemporary full calf (rubbed, some foxing). Very good. Scarce. Housed in a gilt stamped red morocco-backed folding box by Zaehnsdorf. Contains a vocabulary of the Sioux languages. Howes USIANA A-379; Sabin 2335. Atwater (1778-1867), a successful Ohio lawyer, was appointed as U.S. commissioner to negotiate with the Indians of the upper Missouri for the pruchase of mineral-rich land; "a social and intellectual pioneer of the Middle West, and perhaps the first advocate of forest conservation; he was one of the first to predict the success of the railway, the first historian of his state and the founder of its school system" (DAB).
