Publications Of The Nebraska State Historical Society. Volume Xx.

WATKINS, ALBERT [EDITED BY].

Publication: Published by the Society, 1922, Lincoln

First Edition. 8vo. Brown Cloth, titles and decoration stamped in gold on the front cover and spine, [18], 400 pp., teg, frontis. (portrait), editor's preface, illustrated, plates, portraits, maps, index. A history in serial short stories, of the valleys or plains of the Missori and Arkansas rivers (comprehensively the Nebraska Country) and of the contiguous mountain region, covering the first six decades of the nineteenth century and compiled mainly from contemporaneous newspapers. The traffic of the fur traders, the advance of steamboats up the Missouri, military protection of the Upper Missouri from both Indian and British trespassers, cholera and smallpox among the Indians, wars between gentile settlers and Mormons, the retirement of the Mormons to Utah and the armed rebellion there, and much more is covered. Clean, tight, near fine copy, with the large folding map in fine condition.