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Boston Toronto: Little, Brown & Company, 1983. First Edition, Second Printing. Cloth. Like New/Very Fine. Alex Farquharson (cover art). Small quarto, blue buckram with gold lettering on spine + gilt stockaded Fort Dearborn at Chicago with Indian canoe passing embossed on front cover, illustrated with pictorial title page repeating gilt fort on front cover, 8 B&W maps & blue map endpapers, plus small images as headings; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) depicting a river-&-forest campsite in color by Alex Farquharson; [in-text pictorial headings not credited];Amplification Notes; Bibliography; Index; xiv + 688 pages. Weight: 2 lbs. 5.5 oz. Allan Wesley Eckert (1931 - 2011) was an American novelist and playwright who specialized in remarkably accurate and dynamic historical novels for adults and children. He was also a naturalist who wrote studies on many birds and animals. <br /> <br /> Gateway To Empire is a very accurate historical… Read More