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Prairie Farming In America. With Notes By The Way On Canada And The United States. JAMES CAIRD

Prairie Farming In America. With Notes By The Way On Canada And The United States.

JAMES CAIRD

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Publication: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman's, & Roberts, 1859, London

First Edition. Original Cloth, viii, 128pp. Folding Map. A general description of farming in the 1850's in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin as observed by the author during his travels. Caird was an agriculturalist and member of the British Parliament. This volume was the result of a tour he undertook in 1859 through Canada and the American Midwest. Slight sunning to spine, and a few light spots, else Very Good. Internal soiling to pages viii and 1.

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