The Bark Covered House: or Back in the Woods Again; Being a Graphic and Thrilling Description of Real Pioneer Life in the Wilderness of Michigan

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First Edition. 250 pp. Illustrated with 5 plates, text illustrations. Publisher's cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Good+ with some general wear and soiling to cloth, rubbing to extremities, chipping to spine ends; front hinge cracked, scattered foxing and occasional finger soiling, dampstain to bottom edge of rear endpapers. A well-written account of Yankee pioneer life in Michigan. The author bought 80 acres of land near present-day Dearborn in 1832 to farm, only to mortgage the property in the depression of 1837 and find that hunting eventually had to provide almost all his family's sustenance. Rare in collectible condition. N° de ref. del artículo 140941514

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