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[FRAMED] REPRINT. THE VICKSBURG DAILY CITIZEN. JULY 2, 1863 by J. M. Swords

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Title: [FRAMED] REPRINT. THE VICKSBURG DAILY CITIZEN. JULY 2, 1863
Author: J. M. Swords
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: Vicksburg was a city under siege. Both Lee and Grant wanted to control the city and its important location along a bend in the Mississippi River, and in May 1863 Grant had surrounded it. . Citizens literally took shelter in caves; food and necessities grew scarcer and scarce.~~Vicksburg's newspaper naturally covered conditions on the ground in the city. But it also became a physical representation of those condition. The newspaper ran out of paper, and publisher J. M. Swords -- in a burst of ingenuity -- conceived the idea of cutting wallpaper into sheets and running them through the press as broadsides, with the wallpaper pattern one side and the text of the newspaper on the other.~~Swords issued 6 papers in this manner. This facsimile of the last was on July 2, 1863. Two days later the Confederates surrendered Vicksburg. Swords fled and Federal troops entered the city and "visited" the newspaper offices where type was still standing. They added a paragraph at the end of this issue added their own commentary, dated July 4, 1863:~"Two days brings about great changes, The banner of the Union floats over Vicksburg ... This is the last wall-paper edition, and is, excepting this note, from the types as we found them. It will be valuable hereafter as a curiosity". ~~Presumably two issues of this facsimile framed together -- to show both sides.

Sir Archibald by Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)

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Title: Sir Archibald
Author: Wolo (Wolff von Falkenstein)
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: WIlliam Morrow and Company, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Thin folio. (40)pp. Paper over boards printed in full color. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout by Wolo in monochrome and occasionally full color. This is a very good, bright copy with only a trace of wear at edges and corners. The dustwrapper is rubbed at the edges lacks two small pieces, else is in very good condition. It is not price-clipped. With a full page full color dedication on the front blank featuring the animal king. Wolo (Baron Wolff von Falkenstein) was a refugee from Nazi Germany who took up residence in San Francisco where he worked for the Chronicle and developed his superb artistic ability. .

Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West by Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo

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Title: Long Day's Journey: The Steamboat & Stagecoach Era in the Northern West
Author: Schwantes, Carlos Arnaldo
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. First Edition. 408pp. Quarto [26 cm] Rust cloth with the title silver stamped on the backstrip. Fine/Fine. In Long Day's Journey Carlos Schwantes gathers historical photographs, advertisements, posters, and contemporary accounts to recreate one of the most colorful periods in the American West. He traces the rapidly evolving saga of miners and settlers struggling to get from here to there in the days before railroads reached the West, trying to establish methods of transportation and communication between the eastern United States and the new territories that became Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming-first by sea, around continents, then by land and water routes across America. Many of the enduring images and myths of the West derive from this era: the Pony Express, mule trains and plodding ox-team freighters, the picturesque side-wheelers and stern-wheelers that churned along the rivers, the colorful Concord stagecoaches drawn by four or six jingling, fleet horses. Schwantes describes in detail the technology of preindustrial modes of transportation. He explains the economics that linked the birth and death of western towns and cities, the business history of entrepreneurs and stagecoach and steamboat companies, and the challenges facing passengers and employees on the stages and steamers of the northern West. Integrating more than 200 historical photographs and other illustrations with vivid contemporary accounts, Schwantes presents a fascinating history of Americans forging the first working connections between the West and the rest of America.

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