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Hardcover in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 277pp.,bibliography, Index. First edition, second printing. No previous ownership marks, no book-plate, no marking or remainder marks, etc. A square, bright, tightly bound copy. “Drawing on the work of more than three hundred travel writers–among them Charles Dickens, Margaret Fuller, Anthony Trollope, and Mark Twain–from America’s own Est Coast and from fourteen other countries, this book offers a witty and irreverent look at the wild Midwest in its heyday.” A fine copy in a near fine dust-jacket.