1861-1865
Tidball, John C. (John Caldwell), 1825-1906
Manuscript
Title: The Story of American Liberty as told by Ivan Ivanoff.
Contained in two parts. Part one, 68 pages in length, contains a preface by Tidball, in which he discusses Ivanoff's manuscript, which he claims was found after the United States purchased Alaska from Russia. Writes that the manuscript, originally written in Russian, will "place us face to face with the fathers of the Republic and now, after the lapse of a century, to let us see them as they were when yet their flesh did feel..." Offers biographical information about Ivanoff, who was "an old man" circa 1830. Part two begins with a description of American Revolutionaries besieging the…
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