Boynton, C. B. and Mason, T. B., A Journey Through Kansas; with Sketches of Nebraska: Describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing, and other Resources. The Results of a Tour Made in the Autumn of 1854.

Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Co., 1855, first edition, 12mo, x, 216 pp., folding map, original printed paper wrappers, housed in a custom cloth case, scattered light foxing to text, rear wrapper detached but present, portions of back-strip missing, else very good. The Thomas W. Streeter copy with his bookplate and penciled notes on front free endpaper. The work includes a voyage up the Missouri; Indian fighting; hunting on the plains and Rockies; and winter adventures on the prairies. Boynton devotes a chapter in this work to the Kansas Question, which he feared could open up the west to the forces of slavery. “According to an article by Cora Dolbee in the Kansas Historical Quarterly 20:115-48, Boynton was the sole author of this book. He wrote as a member of a committee for the American Reform Tract and Book Society, and the Kansas League of Cincinnati.” –WCB.

Dary, Kanzana, 6; Eberstadt 137:41, very scarce in wrappers; Graff 376; Howes B-677; Streeter Sale 1990, this copy; Wagner-Camp, Becker 250; Wheat, Transmississippi West 4: map 827, p. 41                                                                                             $ 1500.00