Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm. Material: paper. Size: 5" x 8". Description: red hardcover with gold spine print: Crusader and Feminist, Swisshelm Letters 1858-1865, Larsen; contents: 327 numbered pages of newspaper letters written by Swisshelm who was an editor in western Pennsylvania, on the Minnesota frontier (The St. Cloud Visiter and The St. Cloud Democrat) and in the national capital; the letters provide a picture of the times, the Civil War era, accounts of frontier travel, pioneer journnalism, early Minnesota history, Fort Snelling and the Sioux Wars; includes Swisshelm portrait and index..
