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Title: The Encyclopedia of the New West, Containing Fully Authenticated Information of the Agricultural, Mercantile, Commercial , Manufacturing, Mining and Grazing Industries, and Representing the Character, Development, Resources and Present Condition of Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Indian Territory. Also, Biographical Sketches of Their Representative Men and Women. Illustrated with Fine Steel Plate Portraits
Author: Brown, John Henry and William S. Speer, editors
Description: 611, 269, 77, 38, 13, 6 pp. Illustrated with 90 steel-engraved portrait plates with tissue guards. (4to) 30x23 cm. (11¾x9"), period full brown calf, blindstamped title and ornaments to boards, spine lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition.Each section separately paginated (following the order of states in title) with index at end. Plates with facsimile autographs of their subjects. Biographies of the leading men of the Southwest, with a primary focus on Texas. A very useful compendium of biographical information with superb portrait plates. Quite scarce in commerce. Howes B854.
Heading: (Texas)Place Published: Marshall, Texas
Publisher: United States Biographical Publishing Co.
Date Published: 1881