Wake of the Prairie Schooner by Paden, I. D

Patrice Pr, 1985-06. Hardcover. Good.

Gerald, Missouri: The Patrice Press, 1985. Deluxe Edition Reprint . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 5 3/4" x 8 3/4. Paden, Irene D. - Pen-and-Ink Drawings. 514 Pages Indexed.Tan boards with gold impressed lettering to spine and front. This is a 1985 Deluxe Edition Patrice Press reprint of the 1943 original. Illustrated with 30 pen-and-ink drawings by the author. This is an authentic saga of the emigrant trails across America's plains to the Pacific Coast, from its beginning in 1812, through the thick of the greatest migration in all history, to its deterioration after completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869. Here those trails and sites are described as experienced by a modern family following again the old wheel tracks left in past areas. There is not a fictitious person or imaginary incident in the book. Well known characters of history are described and well known incidents related just as emigrants set them down. More than 350 diaries, letters and reminiscences have been drawn upon and… Read More

Gerald, Missouri: Patrice Press, 1985. First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +. By Author. Published by Macmillan in 1943, this is the Deluxe Edition by Patrice Press. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Irene Paden, maps, bibliography, index, 514 pages. Clean unmarked copy, dust jacket in a new protective mylar sleeve, nice copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.