The Life And Times Of Patrick Gass Now Sole Survivor Of The Overland Expedition To The Pacific Under

by J G Jacob

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First edition

Wellsburg, VA: Jacob & Smith, Publishers and Printers, 1859. First edition. 12mo. 280 pp. Frontispiece portrait and three plates. The story of the Corps of Discovery and its exploration of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase seen through the lens of this biography of the last surviving member of the expedition. The biography of its citizens is the history of a nation, and we trust that the reputations of history will not suffer from one departure in permitting

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