Crosby, Nichols and Company, Boston
Kansas; its Interior and Exterior Life. Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc.
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Title: Kansas; its Interior and Exterior Life. Including a full view of its settlement, political history, social life, climate, soil, productions, scenery, etc.
Author: Sara T. D. Robinson
Publisher: Crosby, Nichols and Company, Boston
Published: 1856
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 366
Catalogs: Abolition, Kansas, American History
Description: Original embossed brown-green cloth. Spine lettering readable in gilt, spine ends crushed, with small tears. Cover boards have some rubbing and the corners are bent inward. Very small pest holes at rear hinge. Contains bookseller's label at top corner of verso pastedown. Light foxing and browning of page edges. No marginalia. Frontispiece with tissue guard of burned Free State Hotel in Lawrence. Sara Robinson (1827-1912), born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, was one of the founding settlers, and eventually the inaugural first lady of Kansas. She was married to Charles L. Robinson, who was instrumental in the founding of Lawrence, Kansas, and the future governor of Kansas. The town of Lawrence, and the Robinsons' work, were a part of the anti-slavery movement in the "Bleeding Kansas" period of the 1850s. Their move to the territory that would become the state of Kansas was in the interest of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, as they tried to make Kansas a free state. Sara Robinson wrote this book while her husband and other abolitionists and free-staters were imprisoned at the military Camp Sackett. Despite the subtitle, the book is best seen as a contemporaneous account of the political, military, and social activities as experienced directly by the Robinsons' and other settlers of Kansas in the 1850s, with the future of the state still unknown. It ends with an impassioned free-state plea to the American people. 366 pages plus publisher's list. Hardcover, very good condition, 12mo.
Author: Sara T. D. Robinson
Publisher: Crosby, Nichols and Company, Boston
Published: 1856
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 3rd edition
Number of Pages: 366
Catalogs: Abolition, Kansas, American History
Description: Original embossed brown-green cloth. Spine lettering readable in gilt, spine ends crushed, with small tears. Cover boards have some rubbing and the corners are bent inward. Very small pest holes at rear hinge. Contains bookseller's label at top corner of verso pastedown. Light foxing and browning of page edges. No marginalia. Frontispiece with tissue guard of burned Free State Hotel in Lawrence. Sara Robinson (1827-1912), born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, was one of the founding settlers, and eventually the inaugural first lady of Kansas. She was married to Charles L. Robinson, who was instrumental in the founding of Lawrence, Kansas, and the future governor of Kansas. The town of Lawrence, and the Robinsons' work, were a part of the anti-slavery movement in the "Bleeding Kansas" period of the 1850s. Their move to the territory that would become the state of Kansas was in the interest of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, as they tried to make Kansas a free state. Sara Robinson wrote this book while her husband and other abolitionists and free-staters were imprisoned at the military Camp Sackett. Despite the subtitle, the book is best seen as a contemporaneous account of the political, military, and social activities as experienced directly by the Robinsons' and other settlers of Kansas in the 1850s, with the future of the state still unknown. It ends with an impassioned free-state plea to the American people. 366 pages plus publisher's list. Hardcover, very good condition, 12mo.
