Minnesota pioneer sketches from the personal recollections and observations of a pioneer resident.
Minneapolis: H.H.S. Rowell, the Housekeeper Press, 1904. First and only edition, 8vo, 371-[372]pp., frontis portrait of O'Brien and 26 illus. on 23 plates; some wear to extremities and light scattered dampstaining to front cover, still a very good, reasonably bright copy in orig. red ribbed cloth gilt. Includes accounts of the first Minnesota literary society and the first Minneapolis bookstore, and stories of sawmills on the St. Anthony and Indians on the plains, all recounted with authority by O'Brien, a writer for the Minneapolis newspaper who came to the territory in 1855 and was closely connected with what he describes. Item #22449
Price: $90.00
See all items by FRANK G. O'BRIEN
