Conquering the wilderness ; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America
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- Created Date
- 1883
- Description
Purple diagonal-fine-rib-grain cloth. Gold and black stamping on front and spine. No decoration on back. Yellow endpapers.
Book has 200 portraits from life and engravings from designs by Nast, Darley, and other eminent artists. Book topics: Indians of North America--Wars; Indian captivities; Frontier and pioneer life; Pioneers.
- Partner
- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- N. D. Thompson and Company : New York, New York St. Louis, Missouri
- Subjects
- Artistic style/Movement
Eastlake
Clothing/Accessories
Hats/Caps
Headdresses
Native American
Decoration/Ornament
Cartouche/Emblem
Diagonal/Zone
Floral
Trees/Plants
Pineapples
Games/Leisure
Smoking
Pipes
Religious
Symbols
Angels
Landscape/Nature
Towns/Villages
Weaponry
Tomahawks
Shields
Clubs
Bows/Arrows
Knives/Spears
Swords
Book-cloth
Color
Purple
Grain pattern
Rib
Bookbinding
Techniques
Gold stamping
Black stamping
Endpapers
Colored
Yellow
United States - Type
- image
- Format
- Height: 24 cm.Width: 16 cm.Depth: 5 cm.
- Language
- English, English
- Standardized Rights Statement
- No Copyright - In the United States:The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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- Conquering the wilderness ; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America. 1883. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Q5W5ISQDQ675E8X. (Accessed March 28, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- (1883) Conquering the wilderness ; or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Q5W5ISQDQ675E8X
- MLA citation style
- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/Q5W5ISQDQ675E8X>.