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Description

Randolph B. Marcy. Library of Congress description: "Gen. R.B. Marcy, U.S.A."

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpbh.03149. CALL NUMBER: LC-BH831- 920[P&P]

Date

between 1860 and 1865

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Name	Brady, Mathew
Date of birth/death	ca. 1823	15 January or 16 January 1896
Location of birth/death	Warren County, New York	New York City
Work period	1844 - ca. 1887
Work location	New York City and Washington, D.C.

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English: He spent much of his career as a frontier explorer and soldier in the American West. He wrote a book detailing the lands he saw in his travels, The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions in 1859. According to the Kansas Collection Books website, The Prairie Traveler was a bestseller in its day.

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