Our Indian Summer in the Far West, Volume 25: An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territor

by S Nugent Townshend and Samuel Nugent Townshend

In 1879 two Englishmen, writer Samuel Nugent Townshend and photographer John George Hyde, set out for a pleasant Indian summer on a tour of the American West. The duo documented their travels by steamship and train, through Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago, across the Missouri to the "new state of Kansas" and the beginning of the western lands and business opportunities that were to become the focus of their narrative. Reprinted here with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806187026
• ISBN13: 9780806187020
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 11.3" x 11.2"