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Scenes and Adventures in the Army

  • U of Pittsburgh copy at archive.org
  • 1857 edition at Google Books
  • 1857 edition at MOA-Michigan

Scenes in the West

Signed, "D.R.G.N." and attributed to Philip St George Cooke

No. I, Southern Literary Messenger (November 1841)
No. II Southern Literary Messenger (January 1842)
No. III, Southern Literary Messenger (February 1842)

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Philip St George Cooke (1809-1895)

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