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Hard cover, 12vo ( 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches), in blue paper-covered boards and cream linen to the spine. Cream paper title labels are upon the top board and spine. This is the stated second impression of the First Edition. (vi) 64 pp. Condition: Very Good. Bumped corners, browned exterior edges, a partial split to the front hinge. Moderate age toning. The inscription reading "With the regards of the editor" to the ffep. in blue fountain pen, signed. ** The diary describes the strenuous, dirty, and otherwise challenging six-hundred mile journey made from Massachusetts, over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio territories by wagon train by the then-nineteen year old Margaret Van Horn Dwight. She was traveling on her own, having lost her parents, grandparents and otherwise abandoned by various relatives. "New Connecticut," afterward to be Ohio, is her destination, and a husband her goal. Max Farrand's introductory essay goes into the ancestry of Ms. Van Horn, (b.1790) who has a former President of Yale as an uncle. It is a very readable story of a young woman's great courage to make her way in the new world, out west.** Editor Max Farrand was a Professor of History at Yale University at the time of this publication. He published a number of well-regarded works on early American history during his career. He later would be the founding director of California's Huntington Library. OCLC 10971532.
Ref: AMER 8780
$65.00