Howe, Henry. The Great West: Containing Narratives of the Most Important and Interesting Events in Western History - Remarkable Individual Adventures - Sketches of Frontier Life - Descriptions of Natural Curiosities: to which is Appended Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah, California, Washington, Nebraska, Kansas, etc., etc., etc. Enlarged Edition. New York: Geo. F. Tuttle; Cincinnati: Henry Howe; Second Edition (January 1, 1857).
Condition Thick octavo, 576 pp. Full brown leather, gilt title and illustrations. Publisher's advertising statements on front and back paste-down endpapers. Repairs to top and bottom of spine. Front hinge reinforced front and back. Sound text block.
Illustrations Tipped-in title page titled “The Great West/The Vast, Illimitable, Changing West!” Five maps and 24 colored full page illustrations, including wagon trains, gold digs, Native American encampments, battles, prairie dogs, etc.
Background Henry Howe was a native of New Haven, Connecticut and after moving to Cincinnati wrote and published a number of popular regional historical works. In The Great West he fed the public's fascination with the promise of Manifest Destiny with tales of riches, perils, and derring-do. .
Price One of the 24 plates from this book – “Caravan of Emigrants for California…” is being offered on eBay for $45 plus $3.95 order shipping. Picclick sold a copy of the book for $89.95, but cites a high range price of $199.
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