Author: MURPHET, Howard
Title: Hammer on the Mountain: Life of Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907)
Description: Wheaton, IL, The Theosophical Publishing House, 1972. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth, dust jacket. xii, 339pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/very good. First edition. Forgotten today, this pioneering agricultural scientist is a national hero in Ceylon. Laid in is a good Olcott-content Typed Letter Signed from renowned John Brown authority Boyd B. Stutler, 1p, small 8vo, Charleston, WV, 11 May 1968. "..aside from the Lincoln and John Brown associations, Olcott did make a very substantial contribution to our farm economy with his sorgho cane project -- no doubt you have sopped up quantities of sorghum on your pancakes...

Keywords: BIOGRAPHY; SIGNED Biography


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