Author: LETTS, Noah Harris, and BANNING, Thomas Allen
Title: Pioneers: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865
Description: Chicago, R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1972. Hardcover. Edited by Paul M. Angle. 16mo. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering and decoration. xxii, 290pp. Top edge gilt. Maps, illustrations. Fine. Pristine and tight 70th volume in the "Lakeside Classics" series of annual Christmas keepsakes, largely reprints of rare historical texts. Two pioneering Illinoisan memoirs, published here for the first time. From the library of Adlai E. Stevenson III (1930-2021), U.S. Senator from Illinois -- who was so taken with it that laid in are three 3" X 5" unlined index cards on which he has inked memorable passages with page numbers. .

Keywords: Illinois & Midwest


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