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Original publisher's dark yellow paper wrappers with staple binding. Lettering and illustration of a field in a hilly landscape printed in black ink on front cover. No date, circa 1930s. 6 1/2" x 8 1/2." Unpaginated, c. seven pages, complete. Two small black-and-white portrait illustrations, complete. Two small errata printed in black ink on white pieces of paper tipped in on a front page and last page of main text. Pages are clean and intact overall but first and last leaves have some darkening and there is slight wear to extremities and faint dampstaining in lower corners of fore-edge. Covers are clean and intact overall but have much darkening and creasing on front and back, a small stamp or sticker tipped in on spine, and slight wear to extremities. A Good copy. A concise history of the city of Rosalia in Whitman County, Washington authored by Alice V. Campbell. Campbell used various sources to write this history including first-person accounts by early pioneers of the region, a thesis by J. E. Lindsey, an autobiography by Mrs. J. M. Whitman, and a paper by Mrs. E. A. Whitman, among others. Among the subjects included in this history are the founding of Whitman County; the May 1858 expedition of Colonel Steptoe; white settlers being at war with the Coeur d'Alene, Spokane, and Yakima tribes; pioneer emigrations to Whitman County in the 1870s; early mail service in Rosalia; the namesake of Rosalia (Rosalia Favorite, the wife of Rosalia's first postmaster); Mr. Favorite's successor, J. M. Whitman; the hardships endured by Mrs. Whitman (nee Emily Trimble) and other pioneers as they trekked across the plains to Fort Walla Walla; early city development of Rosalia; further conflicts between Indigenous People and settlers; the N. P. Railroad reaching Rosalia in 1886; the founding of noted buildings and churches in Rosalia; and the early settlers of Rosalia (most of which are very briefly referred to; some, simply by name).. Book. Book Condition: Good. Binding: Soft cover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Campbell, Alice V : A Short History of Rosalia. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including rare books, libri rari, out of print books, used books and libri antichi. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |