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Boys in the mountains and on the plains; or, The western adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge and Peter Small. By William H. Rideing ... with numerous illustrations.

Title
  1. Boys in the mountains and on the plains; or, The western adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge and Peter Small. By William H. Rideing ... with numerous illustrations.
Published by
  1. New York, D. Appleton and company [c1882]
Author
  1. Rideing, William H. (William Henry), 1853-1918

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Additional authors
  1. Bross, Robert S., approximately 1831-
  2. D. Appleton and Company pbl
Description
  1. viii, 345 p. illus.; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. The author, a member of the Geographical Surveys under Lt. Wheeler, U.S. Army Engineers, presents a series of adventures based on first hand knowledge of the West, Colorado, the Rocky Mountains, Indians, buffalo, and the period of the middle 1850s, with scores of illustrations by Thomas Moran and other artists of the period, and including a rewrite of John Wesley Powell's report on his transit of the Grand Canyon.
Alternative title
  1. Western adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge, and Peter Small
Subject
  1. Children > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
  2. Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
  3. Adventure stories
  4. Friendship > Juvenile fiction
  5. Country life > Juvenile fiction
  6. Hunting stories
  7. Rattlesnakes > Juvenile fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Fiction
  2. Juvenile works
  3. Publishers' catalogues – 1882.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain