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Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & western Texas. Written by Capt. Marryat, C. B.

Title
Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & western Texas. Written by Capt. Marryat, C. B.
Author
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848
Publication
London, Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843.

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Book/textRestricted use Arents S 1085Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Description
3 v. fold. map.; 21 cm.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > West (U.S.)
  • Calumets
  • Tobacco > West (U.S.)
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel
Note
  • Sabin 44698 // Sadleir: XIX century fiction, I, 1586 /
  • "The calumet was smoked": vol. 1, p. 18. "Now if the Shoshones had corn and tobacco to give for furs, they would become rich": vol. 1, p. 20. Other references to tobacco: vol. 1, p. 137-143; vol. 2, p. 153, 189.
  • Uses material from newspaper articles by G. W. Kendall and Josiah Gregg, later included in their Narrative of the Texas Santa Fé expedition and Commerce of the prairies; cf. the prefaces to these works.
  • In the original half cloth and gray paper boards.
  • Provenance: Thomas Middlemore of Hawkesley (bookplate).
Call Number
Arents S 1085
OCLC
  • 6566063
  • NYPG764496963-B
Author
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848.
Title
Narrative of the travels and adventures of Monsieur Violet, in California, Sonora, & western Texas. Written by Capt. Marryat, C. B.
Imprint
London, Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1843.
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Arents S 1085
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