Bloomers and Bugles
New York: American Book--Stratford Press, Inc., 1958. Hard Cover. Very Good / Fair. Item #2317714
Very good in fair jacket. 3 inch closed tear and 1 inch closed tear on top jacket edge, jacket toned with two faint ring stains on front panel.
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: $20.00