Historical Collections of the Great West; containing narrations of the most important ... events in Western History, remarkable individual adventures, sketches of frontier life, descriptions of natural curiosities ... Historical and descriptive sketches of Oregon, New Mexico, Texas, Minnesota, Utah and California
Henry Howe's two-volume compilation of Western American history, frontier narratives and regional sketches, published in the United States in 1851 for general readers following westward settlement. Small wood engravings in ruled frames show distant town views, mining camps, battlefields and river valleys, each with a caption set below; useful for panoramic landscape vignettes, ox-drawn wagons, tents and figures posed as tiny foreground observers.
