INVENTORY #143290
A Pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read 1819-1880
READ, Georgia Willis (ed.)
Regular price
$20.00
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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.