Wild Sports in the Far West. Translated from the German. With Eight Crayon Drawings, Executed in Oils, from Designs by Harrison Weir.
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Link 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.
Printer/Publisher: Crosby, Nichols & Co.
Language: English
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.