Author: PECK, J. M
Title: A New Guide for Emigrants to the West, Containing Sketches of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, with the Territories of Wisconsin and Arkansas, and the Adjacent Parts
Description: Boston, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's blindstamped green cloth; 374, 6 [ads] pages. John Mason Peck was a pioneer Baptist missionary to the western frontier who founded one of the first Protestant churches west of the Mississippi, the first college in Illinois, and ordained the first African-American clergy in St. Louis. GRAFF 3235; HOWES P-171. Lacking front endpaper; library ink stamp on one page and blindstamp on title and three other pages; text fairly clean. Much of backstrip missing. Good .

Keywords: Americana, Travel, Missionaries, Midwestern Americana Americana History Missionaries Midwestern Americana


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