Item #8130 Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future. D. D. Milburn, Rev. W. H., N D. Thompson Publishing Co.
Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.
Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.
Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.
Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.
Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.

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Milburn, D. D., Rev. W. H.; N.D. Thompson Publishing Co.

Lance, Cross and Canoe. The Flatboat, Rifle and Plow in the Valley of the Mississippi. Sketches of the Backwoods Hunter and Settler, the Flatboatman, the Saddlebag’s Parson, the Stump Orator and Lawyer as the Pioneers of its Civilization, its Great Leaders, its Wit and Humor, its Remarkable Extent and Wealth of Resource, its Past Achievements and Glorious Future.

St. Louis, MO: N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., No. 1120 Pine St., [1892]. Illustrated circular, 14” x 10.25”. 4 pp. Letterhead, 10.75” x 7.75”. 2 pp. of typescript. CONDITION: Very good, old folds, light wear; letter very good, old folds.

An unrecorded advertising circular for a work by a noted blind clergyman on the Mississippi Valley.

Beginning by invoking the coming 1893 Chicago World's Fair, “which turns the thought of every American citizen to the facts of American history,” this circular praises and details the work of history, The Lance, Cross and Canoe… (1892) by Rev. William Henry Milburn (1823–1903). A blind Methodist clergyman who was a friend of notables including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Milburn was Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1845 and Chaplain of the Senate some fifty years later, from 1893 until his death in 1903. Milburn’s work is described here as the crowning work of his long and varied career, comprising “a history of the Great Valley in which his boyhood, youth, and so many years of his manhood were spent, and…a recital of the toils, perils, triumphs, manners, customs, wit, humor, eloquence and makeshifts of the people of the Valley, interspersed with tales, narratives, anecdotes, repartees and reminiscences told in the Doctor’s inimitable way.” Milburn writes that his wayfarings brought him in contact with “nearly every man of note that has appeared upon the stage of the West within the past half century.”

The book is advertised as including over 200 illustrations of such scenes as The Sale of Louisiana; Runaway Negroes; Carrying the Mail; a Pioneer Family Singing Psalms; General Stonewall Jackson’s Birthplace; A Rural Combination—Church, School-house and Cemetery; the National Road (the forerunner of the Stage Coach and Railway Train); the Office of the Kentucky Gazette 1787 (Kentucky’s first newspaper), and Preaching in a Tobacco Barn. The text is said to embrace the story of the explorers of the Mississippi Valley, the pioneer preachers of the West, “those hardy indefatigable heralds of the Cross” and biographical sketches of Southwestern leaders. The book’s final chapter compares the Mississippi Valley of the present with that of fifty years ago. 

Milburn was also the author of The Pioneers, Preachers and People of the Mississippi Valley; The Rifle, Axe and Saddlebags; Ten Years of Preacher Life; What a Blind Man Saw in Europe, and so forth.

The included letter by N. D. Thompson Publishing Co. notes the company is paying students and teachers to canvass for the present book and here solicits the unnamed recipient of the letter for employment. The letter incorporates a report on the current state of canvassing for the book.

No copies recorded in OCLC. 

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