A tour on the prairies
By: By the author of the Sketch book
Series: His The Crayon miscellany -- no.1; Western Americana, 1550-1900 -- reel 284, no. 2827
Publisher: Carey, Lea & Blanchard
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Indians of North America; Description and travel
Description: In the Fall of 1832 Washington Irving took part in what he called "a month foray beyond the outposts of human habitation, into the wilderness of the Far West." As was his habit, Irving kept a memorandum book, which he later expanded into A Tour on the Prairies, a real-life Western adventure in the third decade of the nineteenth century. His account is fresh and clear. He saw and makes his readers see the frontiersmen, the trappers, the Indians, and the troopers as they actually were in the 1830s.
Notes: 1st edition.

Prefixed is the general t.-p.: The Crayon miscellany. By the author of the Sketch book, No. 1. Containing A tour on the prairies. Philadelphia, Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. On verso, copyright notice. A second preliminary leaf contains "Advertisement. 'The Crayon miscellany' will appear in numbers from time to time."

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