A Pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read 1819-1880
by READ, Georgia Willis (ed.)
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1927. Hardcover. Good. 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.
"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."
"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."
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143290
- Title
- A Pioneer of 1850: George Willis Read 1819-1880
- Author
- READ, Georgia Willis (ed.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- George Willis Read, Mines, Mining, Pioneers, Settlers, California, Panama, Nevada, silver
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana;
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