BROWN, John

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Fall River, MA: [Privately Printed], 1896. First edition. Frontis, 215pp. Blue publisher's cloth, titled in gilt to spine. Light shelfwear and rubbing to extremities; childish colo r pencil scribbles to three prelims and three early pages. Else sharp, square, and sound; very good indeed. Memoir detailing the frequently colorful adventures of a Massachusetts pastor who spent twenty-five years proselytizing in the American West; includes accounts of interactions with Native Americans, Mormons, stagecoach and train robbers, ranchers and cowboys, etc. Introduction by P. M. MacDonald. Adams, Six-Guns and Saddle Leather, 298. Adams, The Rampaging Herd, 343. Show more