The new purchase
Subtitle: or, early years in the far West
By: by Robert Carlton [pseud.].
Contributors: Carlton, Robert, pseud
Edition: 2nd ed. / rev. by the author. Two volumes in one.
Publisher: Jno. R. Nunemacher; D. Appleton and Co.; J.B. Lippincott & Co.
Published: 1855
Place of publication: New Albany, Ind; New York; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
Notes: Book, cloth, frontispiece.

An account of pioneer life in Bloomington, Monroe County., Ind., where the author was first principal and then a professor in the seminary and college which later developed into Indiana university.

Handwritten in ink at top of p. [7]: Wm. A. Clapp.

News clipping pasted onto leaf at end; clipping provides a "key" to the fictionalized place names and people in the book.