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LANMAN, CHARLES A Summer in the Wilderness; Embracing a Canoe Voyage up the Mississippi and around Lake Superior. New-York: D. Appleton & Company and Philadelphia: Geo. S. Appleton, 1847. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, spine gilt. [iv], 208, [8] pp.; publisher's Advertisements at beginning and end. Old repair to spine ends, corners bumped with old repairs, foxing throughout, contemporary owner's signature to front free endpaper. "These letters tell of a journey up the Mississippi from St. Louis, with descriptions of scenery, legends of the Illinois Indians, and accounts of Nauvoo and the lead region. The description of Nauvoo shortly after the Mormon exodus is especially interesting" (Buck). J. Churchill Newcomb's copy. Newcomb was a journalist, equestrian, and farmer from Loudoun County, VA, who died when he was stabbed in his home by an unknown assailant in 1962. Bruns L38; Buck 403; Flake 4745; Howes L90; Sabin 38925. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson