Item #41988 "California-- Deaths on the Land Route" and "Trail of the California Emigrants" [as published in] NEW - YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Vol. IX No. 2. Saturday, September 15, 1849. Horace - Greeley, 1811 - 1872.

"California-- Deaths on the Land Route" and "Trail of the California Emigrants" [as published in] NEW - YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE. Vol. IX No. 2. Saturday, September 15, 1849.

New York: New York Weekly Tribune, 1849. 1st printing thus. Unpaginated, though 8 pages. Elephant folio: 21-1/4" x 16". Age-toning & foxiing. Fold-lines. Unopened. Couple smalll, unobtrusive punctures in masthead area. An About VG copy. Item #41988

The first article on California "communicated for the Tribune", originating in 'Camp, Buffalo Deer Creek, 90 West of Ft. Laramie, on the Platte River, July 3, 1849', where the piece concludes, "We shall have opportunities daily to frank letters by the faint hearts that are returning. The second piece reprinted from the St Louis Repulbican, originating from a correspondent in Fort Laramie, July 21, 1849.

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