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    Title:
    A Tour on the Prairies

    Date Published:
    University of Oklahoma Press reprint edition 1985

    Description:
    In 1832, Washington Irving, recently returned from 17 years abroad and eager to explore his own country, embarked on an expedition to the country west of Arkansas set aside for the Indians -- what is now Oklahoma. This is his account of that journey, originally published in 1835.