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, 1888. First edition, 8vo, 176pp., frontispiece photogravure portrait of the author; Mounted newspaper clipping opposite title page and leaving stain, covers warn and spotted, spine ends chipped; good. Charlotte Van Cleve nee Clark, b.1819 was the first white person born in Wisconsin and, as a child, accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers. Howes V-21,

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