1862 WENT TO KANSAS Thrilling Account of Ill-Fated Expedition antique Mrs. COLT

Colt, Mrs. Miriam Davis.

Went to Kansas; Being a Thrilling Account of an Ill-Fated Expedition to that Fairy Land, and its Sad Result.

Watertown: L. Ingalls & Co., 1862

It details her family's tragic 1856 journey from New York to join a utopian vegetarian colony in Kansas Territory, resulting in extreme hardship and the death of her husband and young son.


Original embossed cloth, gilt title to the spine

Minor wear, occasional foxing, some marginal faded dampstain.

FIRST EDITION

(Howes C616)

Size 5 by 7 3/4"

Text in English
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