Three score years and ten, life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the west

by Charlotte Ouisconsin Van Cleve

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First edition

Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith, printing house , 1888. First edition, with copyright notice slip pasted to verso of title, 8vo, pp. 176; gravure frontispiece portrait; 3 rub marks on upper cover, else very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover. Charlotte Van Cleve née Clark, b. 1819 was the first white child born in Wisconsin, and as a child accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota

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