Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States
by Bowles, Samuel
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- Hardcover
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Florham Park, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
8vo, original cloth, spine lettered in gilt, large folding hand colored frontispiece map by J.H. Goldthwait, [2], xx, [1], 452 plus 6 ad pp. Spine sunned and faded, light wear to ends and corners, mild foxing, 4" tear to map with evidence of tissue repair, bookplate and signature of previous owner; otherwise very good. According to Wagner-Camp "Samuel Bowles and his party left Atchison, Kansas on May 21, 1865 for San Francisco by way of Salt Lake and across central Nevada, stopping at Austin and Virginia City. They reached the Pacific at the end of June, and traveled overland up the the coast to British Columbia, returning to San Francisco by steamer. They visited Yosemite in August, and were back in New York by the end of September. This book is composed of Bowles's letters to the 'Springfield Republican', revised and expanded." The folding map of the western United States has an insert "Plan of central California on an Enlarged Scale." Wagner-Camp 410 Graff 370 Sabin 7077 Wheat Transmississippi 1115
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- Bookseller
- Nicholas D. Riccio Rare Books & Prints (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100758
- Title
- Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States…
- Author
- Bowles, Samuel
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Samuel Bowles
- Place of Publication
- Springfield, MA
- Date Published
- 1866
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