THE HOUSE ON THE MOUND

by August Derleth

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1958 . Octavo, cloth. First edition. A historical novel based on the lives of Jane and Hercules Dousman from 1848 to 1857 in the House on the Mound at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. A sequel to BRIGHT JOURNEY 1940 , which told the story of Hercules Dousman's early years. As a fur trader and frontier businessman real estate, grain, lumber, packet companies, steamboats and railroads ,

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