Illustrated wraps. Pagination runs 65-96. A later issue of this magazine, (only five volumes were published, the last number being July of 1856), devoted to literature and history relating to the American West, including Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, etc. It changed editorship/ownership a few times, and according to The Magazine of Western History, Volume 8, at most 3000 copies of any issue were ever published. This issue contains a sensationalistic story, "The Cheyenne's Duel," by Cyrus Martyn; poetry by Jane Maria Read; a consideration of Ultraism in America; a look at the life of author/poet Mary Louisa Chitwood; a reprinted excerpt of an account of life in the backwoods of Kentucky, etc. GOOD condition. Covers toned and soiled, with some staining. General wrinkling to the covers. General chipping and tearing to the page edges near the lower left corner, looking somewhat tattered. Chipping and loss to the wrapper along the spine. Several pages protruding from the binding, being rather toned. Seller Inventory # 017895

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Title: The Genius of the West. A Monthly Magazine ...

Publisher: Wm. T. Coggeshall and Geo. True, Editors and perhaps Publishers, Cincinnati

Publication Date: 1856

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

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