Author: RANDALL, Randolph C.
Title: James Hall: Spokesman of the New West
Description: N.p. Ohio State University Press, 1964. Hardcover. Small 4to. Green cloth with gile spine lettering, dust jacket. xii, 371pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket a bit rubbed and faintly age toned, with couple of small edge chips. A tight, attractive first edition of this biography of the Philly-born Illinois jurist and editor who pioneered a new literary realism in the Midwest through the newspaper he edited and books he authored such as "Sketches of the West" (1835) and the well-known "History of the Indian Tribes of North America" (With Thomas McKenney, 1838-44). .

Keywords: Literary Biography Illinois & Midwest


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