Emigrant Life In Kansas

PERCY G. EBBUTT

Publication: Swan Sonnenschein and Co, 1886, London

First edition. Original green pictorial cloth, viii, 237 pp. Frontis with tissue guard + 12 plates. Ebbott came to Kansas in 1871 and returned to England six years later. His well-written and often numerous narrative describes Wild Bill Hickok whom he met in Junction City, life on the prairie, farming, cattle raising, and snake stories. He gives good descriptions of Council Grove, Abilene, Wichita, etc. During their period of settlement, Englishmen such as Ebbutt, provided observations and comments on details of emigrant life that Americans often took for granted. Not in Howes; Graff: or Athearn, _Westward the Briton._ Slightly cocked, else very good with minor edgewear. Very scarce.

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