Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1872
Washington, (DC): GPO, 1872. First edition. 8vo. 318 pp. The report deals with immigration to western public lands, expansion of railroads, Native American issues, the Geological survey, etc. Judge Isaac Parker's copy, with his signature on the title page; Parker (1838-1896), remembered as the "hanging judge," oversaw 13,940 cases on..... More