Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains: Or, The Western Adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge and Peter SmallD. Appleton, 1882 - 345 sayfa The author, a member of the Geographical Surveys under Lt. Wheeler, U.S. Army Engineers, presents a series of adventures based on first hand knowledge of the West, Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, Indians, buffalo, and the period of the middle 1850s, with scores of illustrations by Thomas Moran and other artists of the period, and including a rewrite of John Wesley Powell's report on his transit of the Grand Canyon. |
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