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Book Condition: Used Very Good
Seller: Katz Fine Manuscripts Inc.

Canada
About Item: MONTANA OTTUMWA IOWA, SHERIDAN COUNTY, DAKOTA. Very Good. 1907. On offer is an original, significant historic record of late 1800s and early 1900s pioneer and western life being the original handwritten manuscript diary of a fascinating and eclectic Montana pioneer whose many job titles included lawman, judge, Civil War veteran, teacher, miner and newspaper editor Samuel Dow Bollinger [1848 - 1917]. The 3½ x 6 inch 40 page book begins in 1907 [though much is retrospective] with annual entries through 1917. [The last two entries of 1917 seem to indicate he was ill and likely died about that time.] The first page or so gives history of his parents who had come from Pennsylvania writing entries covering his birth through the rest of his life and a very interesting life and one uniquely reflective of the times in which he lived. In the early 1860s he worked for a couple newspapers in Ottumwa; The Courier and The Mercury from 1866 - 1869 Bollinger and he also served with the US Army in… Read More
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