The prairie and the making of middle America: Four centuries of description
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The prairie and the making of middle America: Four centuries of description
First published in 1926; reprinted in 1961 in an edition of 750 copies. The Prairie and the Midwest: accounts of early explorers, European travel literature, the literature of colonization, romanticism and the cult of the noble savage, East Coast notions of the Midwest, promotion of Western settlement, the beginnings of local writing, realism, etc. A bibliographic-historical monograph with many bibliographical footnotes and a concluding section of "bibliographical notes." The plates are photographic reproductions of prints. Index. Light soiling. xiv, 472 pages, with 12 additional plates. cloth, top edge tinted red.. small 8vo..