Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir.
- Singerman ID
- supp1575
- Year
- 1859
- Entry
- Gerstäcker, Friedrich. Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1859. xi, 396 p.
- Author/Editor
- Gerstäcker, Friedrich
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Holdings
- In most academic libraries
- Title
- Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir.
- Language
- English
- Printer/Publisher
- Crosby, Nichols & Co.
- Notes
- On pp. 70-71, a humorous retelling of a camp fire encounter with two German-Jewish pack peddlers fearful of being robbed by the author. On pp. 375-76, the author recalls his visit to Louisiana’s Bayou Sara region where German Jews specializing in the sale of ready-made clothes undersell one another.
- Collection
-
Chronological File, 1676 to 1900
Gerstäcker, Friedrich, “Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir.”, Judaica Americana II, accessed September 16, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/singerman/item/51705