A Pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read 1819-1880

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A Pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read 1819-1880

READ, Georgia Willis (ed.)

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The record of a journey overland from Independence, Missouri, to Hangtown (Placerville), California, in the spring of 1850 with a letter from the Diggings 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.

Publication Info

  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
  • Edition: n/a
  • Date Published: 1927
  • Place Published: Boston
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    xxvi, 185 p. 23 cm. B&w plates. Fold-out map at rear. Blue cloth. Spine a bit faded, light wear to edges.Ink signature on front free endpaper, some stains to front endpapers. Map has roughened edge and slight staining.

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