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The West from a car window / Richard Harding Davis ; with a new introduction and index by Rawlene LeBaron and Laurel Michele Wickersheim.

Title
The West from a car window / Richard Harding Davis ; with a new introduction and index by Rawlene LeBaron and Laurel Michele Wickersheim.
Author
Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916
Publication
Westminster, Md. Heritage Books, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • LeBaron, Rawlene.
  • Wickersheim, Laurel Michele.
Description
248 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Summary
"In January 1892, [Richard Harding Davis] boarded a train to begin a three-month tour of the West to write a series of articles for Harper's Weekly. This series was later published in a book, The West from a Car-Window. The West offered adventure, danger, and potential riches; and had captured the imagination of the country ... Readers will journey through Texas, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi; meet U.S. troops on the Texas/Mexican border; tour a mining camp, Oklahoma City, a Texas ranch, and an Indian reservation; experience an army post through civilian eyes; and for a finale, visit Denver and Colorado Springs in Colorado."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject
  • Overland journeys to the Pacific
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel
Note
  • Originally published: New York : Harper & Brothers, 1892.
  • Includes index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0788436473 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2007273311
OCLC
  • 124539446
  • SCSB-13341677
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library