Title: Across the Plains in Forty-Nine Author: Shaw, R[euben] C[ole] Place: Farmland, Ind. Publisher: W.C. West Date: 1896 Description: 200 pp. Frontispiece portrait. 16.3x11 cm (6½x4¼") original gilt-lettered reddish-brown cloth. First Edition. Shaw was a member of the "Mount Washington Mining Company" of Boston, numbering 50 men. The company journeyed in 1849 along the Platte River, and by way of the Black Hills and the Humboldt River, reaching California in September after numerous hardships. Kurutz notes "a short but lively account of Shaw's California experiences including mining in the vicinity of Weber Creek," as well as the fact that the book was a revision of a series of articles written for the Farmland, Indiana, Enterprise in 1895. Cowan p.580; Graff 3744; Howes S349; Kurutz 571a; Eberstadt 431. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning a touch, rubbed and bumped spine ends and corners and light soiling; ink inscription on front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 238829
Title: Across the Plains in Forty-Nine Author: Shaw, R[euben] C[ole] Place: Farmland, Ind. Publisher: W.C. West Date: 1896 Description: 200 pp. Frontispiece portrait. 16.3x11 cm (6½x4¼") original gilt-lettered reddish-brown cloth. First Edition. Shaw was a member of the "Mount Washington Mining Company" of Boston, numbering 50 men. The company journeyed in 1849 along the Platte River, and by way of the Black Hills and the Humboldt River, reaching California in September after numerous hardships. Kurutz notes "a short but lively account of Shaw's California experiences including mining in the vicinity of Weber Creek," as well as the fact that the book was a revision of a series of articles written for the Farmland, Indiana, Enterprise in 1895. Cowan p.580; Graff 3744; Howes S349; Kurutz 571a; Eberstadt 431. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine leaning a touch, rubbed and bumped spine ends and corners and light soiling; ink inscription on front free endpaper; very good. Item number: 238829
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