A PIONEER Of 1850. George Willis Read 1819 - 1880.
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1927. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 523). xxvi, 185, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece. Illustrated from Old Prints. Fold-out map at rear. 8vo. Blue cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to spine. Pale blue dust jacket printed in dark blue. Nr Fine (top edge lightly soiled/bookplate)/VG (age-toning/modest edgewear). Item #49785
"The record of a journey overland from Independence Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850, with a letter from Diggins in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California, via Panama, in 1862, capture by the confederate raider Alabama, etc., and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863." [dj blurb].
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