Minnesota Pioneer Sketches SIGNED by Frank O'Brien 1904 Illustrated Hardcover Bk
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Minnesota Pioneer Sketches: From the Personal Recollections and Observations of a Pioneer Resident , by Frank O'Brien. Published in 1904 by H. H. S. Rowell, Minneapolis (The Housekeeper Press). This comprehensive, 372 page, hardcover memoir contains 26 plates, showing some of the people that made history in early Minnesota, some vintage views of the Twin Cities, its old grist mills, etc. There's a frontispiece portrait of the author, pictured above. There are so many people, places and stories mentioned, I can't accommodate them all in this listing. Here's just a partial list of the table of contents though (taken from just page one of four): The Old Oaken Bucket (Song about Minnesota) Going to School in the Early Days Our Old Time Mail Service A Virginia Reed Cut Short by a Hurricane Jim Frost, the Dutchman and the Bear Gathering in the Hay Crop The Government Mills at the Falls Princeton, Old and New A Long Ago Christmas A Saw Mill of Our Territorial Days Col. Francis Peteler's Mound Cellar The Sibley House With the Indians in the Bad Lands The First Literary Society Pioneer Hardships Keeping the Sabbath Holy and much, much more... Signed by Frank O'Brien and inscribed "To my personal friend, Dr. & Mrs. Louis Williams, With the compliments of the author." "Lance" is also written at the bottom. Good to very good condition. There'
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