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History of the War Between the United States and the Sac and Fox Nations of Indians and Parts of Other Disaffected Tribes of Indians in the Years Eighteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven Thirty-One and Thirty-Two
1834053177Jacksonville Ill.: Printed by Calvin Goudy 1834. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 12mo. x 142 pages. The binding measures 7 1/8 inches tall by nearly 4 1/4 inches wide. Hardcover bound in original brown cloth. The binding is quite worn and bumped with the cloth fraying about the edges. Some gathering slightly sprung but holding. Lacks the flyleaves but the text collates complete. Early notations on the front paste down. Text is toned and foxed and some pages towards the rear are heavily dog-eared. There is browning in the text near the gutters running from page 12 to 21 as if something had been laid in loosely. Pencil notations on page 73 in the blank space at the end of the chapter are hard to decipher. Rear gutter nearly completely open and holding by a few strings. A worn copy of a rare book. "Final" Howes W-19 states "History of the war between the United States and the Sac and Fox nations." John Allen Wakefield 1797-1873 was born in Pendleton South Carolina. His family moved to Tennessee Kentucky and then Illinois. He served in the Illinois militia during the War of 1812 and later became both a physician and a lawyer. In 1832 he participated in the Black Hawk War. This is one of the earliest contemporary accounts of the conflict. <br/> <br/> Printed by Calvin Goudy hardcover
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