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The Golden Free Land: The Reminiscences and Letters of Women on an American Frontierby Crystal Sasse Ragsdale
Hardcover Cloth 198 pages. Condition Very Good NO Dust Jacket. Stated First Edition 1976. Beautiful green boards and gold embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition with slight shelf wear. Foxing on edges. Please note this volume was printed on yellow colored paper. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Dedication by author on splash page following first title page dated May 1991.
A collection of rare personal narratives by ten valiant women who helped conquer a strange and hostile American frontier. Printed in his hometown newspaper in Oldenburg, part of the German Confederation, in 1832, Friedrich Ernst's adulatory letter about moving to Texas was widely read at the time and credited for propelling the German immigration wave to prerevolution Texas, settling the "German Belt"… Read More