The true source of the Mississippi

by Pearce Giles

$50 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Buffalo, N.Y. Art-Printing Works of Matthews, Northrup & Co., 1887 . First edition, 8vo, pp. 50; frontispiece and 2 full-page maps; original printed tan wrappers; spine singed, staples rusty, the whole lightly spotted; good copy, or better. Published in support of the claim that Lake Glazier, or Elk Lake, discovered by Captain Willard Glazier in 1881, is the true source of the Mississippi River. Not! Includes a long list of testimonials asserting Glazier's

• Binding: Wrappers

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