Autograph letter signed, to his sister Phebe, with a detailed account of travels across the prairies in Kansas and Oklahoma, including experiences with robbers and Native Americans

by Kansas, M. S. Bell

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

6pp. 8vo. Usual folds. Item #365550 A strong content letter by a western settler in the post-war period: ... Geo. & I returned from our long journey last evening safe and sound which will allay mother's apprehensions. We traveled between 900 and 1000 miles through all kinds of country boundless, trackless, prairie, rugged rocky pine covered mountains across rivers torrents and bayous, among all kinds of people white, red and

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.