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Charlton Laird : THUNDER ON THE RIVER

Little, Brown & Company, 1949

Hardcover has light wear to spine ends and corners, very clean, light soiling to top edge of pages. Interior clean and intact, no markings other than name written on title page. Map of Black Hawk country frontispiece. Dustjacket has moderate edgewear, tanning to edges and several edge tears/chips, some repaired on rear, as well as a larger chip from spine bottom. "Story of the Upper Mississippi Indian country. In this lusty frontier novel, we meet the men and women who struggled to open up the West. We see their brawls, endure with them the bloody massacres. We watch the French as they cannily trade staples and trinkets with the Indians for furs, and the British as they incite the Indians against the settlers...." . (400noto) ; 8vo; 310 pages, Near Fine in Good dust jacket. Illustr: Illustrated by Tompkins, Alan

First Edition; First Printing