The Winning Of The West, Roosevelt, 3 Vols, 1902, Illus. (Missing vol. 4)

Description: The Winning of the West; an account of the exploration and settlement of our country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. Theodore Roosevelt. 3 volumes (missing vol. 4) Alleghany edition G. P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1902 (1894 on cp) Volume One: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776Volume Two: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783Volume Three: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealth 1784-1790 Luxury edition. Half leather bindings with marbled paper over boards. Gilded titling to spine with musket and powder horn design. Gilded top edge. Printed bookplate on feps. Illustrated, with captioned tissue guards. Foldout maps. Individual volume notes v1. heavy wear with loss at spine ends, lower spine leather cracked most of the way across. v2. Moderate wear at spine ends. v3: spine leather detached but present, moderate to heavy wear at ends. Heavy abrasion and shelf wear to all cover edges. The leather segments of the binding are showing their age. Splits along cover gutters, detached pieces of the leather covering, detached spine cover (vol. 3), leather is considerably desiccated and flaking off in parts, with some red rot. "Mr. Theodore Roosevelt is the latest writer who has entered this field, and his two volumes on The Winning of the West1 will find many appreciative readers. His style is natural, simple, and picturesque, without any attempt at fine writing, and he does not hesitate to use Western words which have not yet found a place in the dictionary. He has not taken the old story as he finds it printed in Western books, but has sought for new materials in manuscript collections ; and has consulted original documents in the State Department at Washington, the Canadian Archives at Ottawa, — unrivaled on this continent for materials in Western history nd many private manuscript collections ; and he has read the printed American State Papers and Archives and the Virginia State Papers. Few writers of American history have covered a wider or better field of research, or are more in sympathy with the best modern method of studying history from original sources; and yet, in reading his narrative and noting his references, we have a feeling that he might profitably have spent more time in consulting and collating the rich materials to which he had access, and thereby have enlarged his information and modified many of his opinions." [Review from Atlantic Magazine November 1889). Question? Contact us. Happy to provide more info or phiotos.

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