NMLP P-043359 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Covered Wagon
Emerson Hough · D. Appleton and Company (New York) · 1922
US-only first in book form; no UK edition found that precedes. The first-thus trap is the serialization: the novel ran in The Saturday Evening Post beginning 1 April 1922 with Koerner illustrations, so the Appleton book is the first book appearance rather than the first appearance in print. Only the Appleton 1922 is collected as the first edition.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-043359 for "The Covered Wagon" by Emerson Hough (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-043359, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).