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Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE
Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE
Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE
Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE

Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE

$ 633.6

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Year: Pre-1900
  • Modified Item: No
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Condition: Used

    Description

    Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE
    Original Newspaper - FRONTIER SCOUT - Fort Union, Dakota Territory 1864 - RARE
    This newspaper was printed on good quality rag paper using a letter press.  You can see the impression of the letters and also feel them with your fingers.  Comes with a reprint litho which will help you see the difference.  The reprint is of poor quality paper.
    Some of the subjects - Poetry, Gold Mining, wealth of the U.S., Civil War Battle, The Enemies of Lincoln can howel with their perjured hearts of politicians, Indians, 30th Wisconsin, Founding of Fort Union, Buffalo, Our National Debt, Letter from home, Sea Bears - St. Paul.
    Fort Union, Dakota Territory originally established in 1828 as a Trading Post by the American Fur Company.  General Alfred Sully occupied the Post, leaving one company of the 30th Wisconsin Infantry to protect the traders and public property stored there for the post to established nearby Fort Buford.
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