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Viele, Mrs. Teresa Griffin "Following the Drum:" A Glimpse of Frontier Life. New York Rudd & Carleton 1858 First Edition Embossed Cloth Good Duodecimo Mrs. Viele was "the first woman to publish an account of army life in the trans-Mississippi West, and one fo the few women who wrote about Texas --Myres, FOLLOWING THE DRUM." En route to Texas they stopped at Havana, Cuba, which she describes in chapter 6. [Howes V92; Wagner-Camp-Becker 312a:1; Raines p. 209; Winegarten p. 118]. Describes the early career of her husband, Egbert, who was Chief Engineer for New York's Central Park before he became a Brigadier General in August, 1861. Fore-edge dampstained, foxing, new endpapers, original embossed pebbled cloth. Price: 125.00 USD
