Item #38681 Lights and Shades of Missionary Life: Containing Travels, Sketches, Incidents, and Missionary Efforts, During Nine Years Spent in the Region of Lake Superior. John H. PITEZEL.

Lights and Shades of Missionary Life: Containing Travels, Sketches, Incidents, and Missionary Efforts, During Nine Years Spent in the Region of Lake Superior.

Cincinnati: Western Book Concern, 1860. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Original heavily blind-embossed brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. 431pp, (1p ad). Illustrations. Very good. Quite mild edgewear; contemporary ownership signature on front flyleaf. Item #38681

Tight and nice later printing of this 1857 account of a Methodist Episcopal minister among the Native American tribes of the upper Midwest. A quite decent copy of a title commonly found in inferior condition. The full-page engravings depict "Montreal River Falls," "Horse-Shoe Harbor, Near Copper Harbor, L.S.," "Cliff Mine, Lake Superior" and "Big Bekuenesec Falls, Menomonee River."

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