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Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Memoirs, essays, and poetry by Tenney, who died from consumption at the age of 32. One story is a sort of fantasy jungle adventure with giant frogs and other large, curious creatures; there is an essay on eighteenth-century attacks by the French & their Menominee allies against the Fox Indians in central Wisconsin; another unfinished story imagines a flying machine, an ingenious electric motor, and a flight to China. Born in Portage City Wisconsin in 1857, he studied law at his father's law office in Appleton before moving to Chicago in 1877 to practice law with his uncle & brother. Falling ill that year, he moved to Denver, but the disease progressed rapidly and he died in Appleton in early 1890. His father & brother found these writings among his papers and published them for the family, not the public. Another Tenney, the author's uncle, Horace Addison Tenney, was an important political figure in Madison, Wisconsin; likely this volume was owned by him or one of his children. Hardcover, as pictured. Light wear, corners bumped & rubbed, light tanning to pages. Text clean; [2], 170 pages. Size: Duodecimo. Signed By the Author's Father.