Its Future Prospects... (London, 1850)
By G. A. Fleming
*Graff 1347
According to the late Ray Allen Billington, distinguished expert in the field, in combination with the Ayer Collection the Graff Collection makes the Newberry Library one of the two or three outstanding libraries in the world for the study of the American West.
Newberry Trustee Everett D. Graff (1885-1964), attracted by the Ayer Collection, donated his library of Western Americana to the Newberry Library in 1964. The collection originally comprised some 10,000 books and manuscripts, many of them extremely rare, most dealing with the exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West in the 19th century.
Major strengths of the Graff Collection:
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The Graff collection is described in A Catalog of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana (Storm, 1968) and fully catalogd in the Newberry's online catalog and the OCLC database.
The following Newberry Library Bulletin articles provide excellent overviews of the collection.