Item #2294599 Bloomers and Bugles. Arch Merrill.

Bloomers and Bugles

New York: American Book--Stratford Press, Inc., 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good / Good. Item #2294599

Jacket rear previously mended with tape in multiple spots, a few small tears and small chips to jacket edges, front jacket flap price-clipped.

214 pp. 8vo. Regional history during the period between the passing of the frontier and the close of the Civil War. "In Bloomers and Bugles you meet the original "Bloomer Girls," the suffragists, among them Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, who defied convention by wearing trousers in public." ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Arch Merrill (August 5, 1894 - July 15, 1974) was a newspaper reporter for the Rochester, New York Democrat and Chronicle from 1923 to the late 1960s. He was a prolific writer, best known for his articles in the Sunday paper on history and folklore of the Genesee Valley and the Finger Lakes of upstate New York.

Price: $25.00

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