The new purchase: or, Seven and a half years in the far West.
By Robert Carlton, esq. [pseud.]
- New-York, Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton, D. Appleton & co.; 1843.
- 2 v. 19 cm.
An account of pioneer life in Bloomington, Monroe co., Ind., where the author was first principal and then a professor in the seminary and college which later developed into Indiana university. Names of persons and places are fictitious.