Author: KEILLOR, Steven J.
Title: Grand Excursion: Antebellum America Discovers the Upper Mississippi
Description: Afton, MN, Afton Historical Society Press, 2004. Hardcover. Small 4to. Tan cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 288pp. Frontispiece, illustrations. Fine/near fine. Handsome first edition of this chronicle of the famed 1854 Mississippi steamboat expedition from Rock Island, Illinois, to St. Anthony Falls in the Minnesota Territory, a celebration of the first railroad line that reached Ol' Man River. Tipped to front flyleaf is a fine decorative-edged bookplate signed boldly in full by Keillor in black ballpoint. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest Nautical


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