KANSAS TERRITORY
first edition Hardcover
1856 · Washington
by HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1856. This is Executive Document Number 10, 34th Congress, Third Session. The document is 36 pages in length. A message from the President of the United States (Franklin Pierce) referred to the Committee on Territories, and including extracts from a letter of Governor Geary, together with a copy of executive minutes of the Kansas Territory. Fascinating material on care of prisoners, dealing with local Indians, and other matters. Bound in full brown leather, rebacked at some point. Leather label on front cover "Library House of Reps". Label is chipped at edges. All letters intact. Endpapers are browned at edges and chipped. The document is generally quite clean, title-page browned at free edge. A look at the doings in Kansas five years before Statehood. 36pp.. First Edition. Full-Leather. General Moderate Wear. Thin Octavo. (Inventory #: 011069)