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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Dust Jacket. Leather spine over black closth boards. The spine is splitting at the outer joints and there is general shelf wear, else the book is tight and unmarked. There is foxing throughout (heavy at times) as is common with this title. Contains articles of interest to women of mid-nineteenth century America--children, family, religion, etc--including a two and a half page letter from Narcissa Whitman to the magazine from Oregon in 1846--she was the first documented European-American woman (along with Eliza Hart Spaulding) to cross the Rocky Mountains in 1836. The letter has no foxing. She also became an American missionary in the Oregon Country in what would become the state of Washington; she died in the following year when the mission was attacked by Cayuse Indians.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 380 pages.…