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[ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY]. -- [WESTERN AMERICANA]. HAFEN, LeRoy R. and Francis Marion YOUNG. Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890. Glendale, CA: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1938.
8vo. Numerous illustrations. Original dark blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, top edge gilt, others uncut (recased, unused bookplate). Provenance: Elizabeth Wooley Jensen (gift inscription from her aunt).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY YOUNG with a short description of the Fort which he calls “a camp beside the road”. The lengthy inscription was presented to Elizabeth Wooley Jansen whose appreciation “Dr. Hafen and [Young] had in mind when [they] gathered the material and wrote this book”.