Personal recollections of Minnesota and its people, and early history of Minneapolis... With biographical memoranda and letters to Col. John H. Stevens, selected

by Marshall Robinson by John H. Stevens

$125 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Minneapolis: publisher not identified , 1890. First edition, 8vo, 4 , iv & 432- 436 pp., plus xi pp. index, engraved frontis, 6 illus. throughout; minor wear at bottom of spine and pages lightly toned, else fine and bright in orig. black cloth gilt. After fighting in the Mexican War, John Harrington Stevens became a pioneer settler in Minnesota, where he built the first domestic dwelling in the hamlet that later became Minneapolis. For an interesting

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