ASIN: B019GIVFBO
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 188
Eliza Farnham (1815 –1864) was a famous 19th-century American author of books on the Far West, including “Life in Prairie Land.”Farnham’s book will be found a work of unusual interest, and one that addresses itself to almost every class of readers. Its intrinsic value, aside from the high reputation of the authoress, must give it a wide circulation. It is made up of a series of charming and lifelike pictures of a personal residence in the Far West—perfect daguerreotypes of a settler’s daily habits, customs, methods of husbandry, &c.; together with graphic sketches of travel in various sections of that far spreading and fertile country. The work is enlivened by a rich vein of irresistible humor, interwoven among passages of great power and eloquent beauty, immensely impressive and suggestive Mrs. Farnham has already acquired no unenviable degree of reputation or the distinguished ...
