Author: Branch, E. Douglas
Title: Westward: The Romance of the American Frontier
Description: NY and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. 1930. NY and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. 1930. Good. - 8vo, maroon cloth (bumped & rubbed; spine slightly faded; small stain & tiny white stains to rear cover) titled in gilt; deckle-edged. ix, [i], 626 & [1] pp. (cracked; light pink stain to title). Monochrome endpaper maps, 14 B&W full-page & textual maps, & B&W title vignette & head-pieces from woodcuts by Lucina Smith Wakefield. Good.

First edition. "Frontier history continually repeats itself. Into a primitive region come men to gain a livelihood; and to grapple with this wilderness they become primitive themselves. As they develop the region, they themselves develop, taking up the folkways and institutions that characterize the district whence they had come. But to the west of them is another region, still primitive; and into it go pioneers who must start at the beginning again."- -From the author's Introduction. Good .

Keywords: AMERICANA; WEST; PIONEERS; WAKEFIELD, LUCINA SMITH; WESTWARD; FRONTIER; DOUGLAS BRANCH; HISTORY; ILLUSTRATIONS; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION.

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