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Auction archive: Lot number 145

[Americana] Albert D. Richardson "Beyond the Mississippi"

Estimate
US$50 - US$100
Price realised:
US$600
Auction archive: Lot number 145

[Americana] Albert D. Richardson "Beyond the Mississippi"

Estimate
US$50 - US$100
Price realised:
US$600
Beschreibung:

Richardson, Albert D. Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast. With more than two hundred illustrations, from photographs and originals sketches... New edition. Written down to summer of 1869. Hartford (CT): American Publishing Company, 1867, 1869. 8vo, rebound in half leather over marbled paper, leather labels on spine, matching marbled endpapers, 620pp. Most illustrations in text. Frontis of Schuyler Colfax. Illustrated half title with vignettes of stagecoaches and covered wagons, trains, miners, a farmer plowing the prairie, ranchers herding cattle, an Indian encampment, telegraph lines from New York to San Francisco plus natural scenes with mountains and rivers. Winged Mercury hovers above all. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869), born in Massachusetts, left the East for Pittsburgh in 1851. The following year he moved on to Cincinnati, where he spent five years writing for various newspapers. He married a local woman in 1855 and had five children by her. In 1857 he went to Sumner Kansas as a correspondent for the Boston Journal, and two years later accompanied Horace Greeley and Henry Villard to Pike's Peak. He returned via the southwestern, lesser known, route, writing of his travels for various periodical publications. He spent 1860 editing The Western Mountaineer in Golden City, Colorado. He then went to New York for a short time before going to New Orleans for the New York Daily Tribune to gauge the situation in the South before the start of a war many saw as inevitable. He then "mutated" into a war correspondent, and, of necessity, a sort of spy for the Union. In spring of 1863 he and two other reporters attempted to run past Vicksburg, but were captured and spent a year and a half in Confederate prisons. In December 1864 he and one other correspondent escaped from Salisbury, NC, reaching Federal lines a month later at Strawberry Plains, TN. During his imprisonment his wife and infant daughter died. The year after the war ended, he published his experiences as a spy and POW, and in 1866, the first edition of Beyond the Mississippi appeared. He followed this with a biography of US Grant, then a new edition (this one) of Beyond the Mississippi. About this same time he became acquainted with Abby Sage (Mrs. Daniel McFarland, who was at the time separated from her husband. Daniel McFarland attempted to kill Richardson in March, but was unsuccessful. At the end of October, Abby obtained a divorce from McFarland, and, in return, a month later McFarland shot Richardson in the Tribune office. Although he died a week later, before succumbing to his wounds he and Abby were married by Henry Ward Beecher. The widow later published a book of Richardson's writings, Garnered Sheaves, that also contained a memoir of the journalist. At least part of Beyond the Mississippi was funded by the Central Pacific Railroad, so the journalist could see the progress being made on this monumental and badly needed project. Businessmen and military leaders both had been clamoring for decades about the need for efficient transportation across the continent. The journey around South America or across the Isthmus took weeks and was dangerous. While there were dangers in North America also, especially outlaws and Indians, but there was at least a chance of controlling these hazards. Not so the "Roaring 40s." Congress authorized the construction of a Northern, Southern and Central railroad in 1859, but did not provide any funding, but it did give away land no one in Washington had ever seen (in all likelihood). The Civil War prevented any steps in the direction of transcontinental railroads from being taken. Richardson wrote: "But what Government had failed to do, the steady course of emigration was accomplishing. The Mormon hegira from Illinois to Utah, the Mexican war, the California gold discoveries, the Kansas troubles, and the rush to Pike's Peak, had all car

Auction archive: Lot number 145
Auction:
Datum:
29 Aug 2019
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
Beschreibung:

Richardson, Albert D. Beyond the Mississippi: From the Great River to the Great Ocean. Life and Adventure on the Prairies, Mountains, and Pacific Coast. With more than two hundred illustrations, from photographs and originals sketches... New edition. Written down to summer of 1869. Hartford (CT): American Publishing Company, 1867, 1869. 8vo, rebound in half leather over marbled paper, leather labels on spine, matching marbled endpapers, 620pp. Most illustrations in text. Frontis of Schuyler Colfax. Illustrated half title with vignettes of stagecoaches and covered wagons, trains, miners, a farmer plowing the prairie, ranchers herding cattle, an Indian encampment, telegraph lines from New York to San Francisco plus natural scenes with mountains and rivers. Winged Mercury hovers above all. Albert Deane Richardson (1833-1869), born in Massachusetts, left the East for Pittsburgh in 1851. The following year he moved on to Cincinnati, where he spent five years writing for various newspapers. He married a local woman in 1855 and had five children by her. In 1857 he went to Sumner Kansas as a correspondent for the Boston Journal, and two years later accompanied Horace Greeley and Henry Villard to Pike's Peak. He returned via the southwestern, lesser known, route, writing of his travels for various periodical publications. He spent 1860 editing The Western Mountaineer in Golden City, Colorado. He then went to New York for a short time before going to New Orleans for the New York Daily Tribune to gauge the situation in the South before the start of a war many saw as inevitable. He then "mutated" into a war correspondent, and, of necessity, a sort of spy for the Union. In spring of 1863 he and two other reporters attempted to run past Vicksburg, but were captured and spent a year and a half in Confederate prisons. In December 1864 he and one other correspondent escaped from Salisbury, NC, reaching Federal lines a month later at Strawberry Plains, TN. During his imprisonment his wife and infant daughter died. The year after the war ended, he published his experiences as a spy and POW, and in 1866, the first edition of Beyond the Mississippi appeared. He followed this with a biography of US Grant, then a new edition (this one) of Beyond the Mississippi. About this same time he became acquainted with Abby Sage (Mrs. Daniel McFarland, who was at the time separated from her husband. Daniel McFarland attempted to kill Richardson in March, but was unsuccessful. At the end of October, Abby obtained a divorce from McFarland, and, in return, a month later McFarland shot Richardson in the Tribune office. Although he died a week later, before succumbing to his wounds he and Abby were married by Henry Ward Beecher. The widow later published a book of Richardson's writings, Garnered Sheaves, that also contained a memoir of the journalist. At least part of Beyond the Mississippi was funded by the Central Pacific Railroad, so the journalist could see the progress being made on this monumental and badly needed project. Businessmen and military leaders both had been clamoring for decades about the need for efficient transportation across the continent. The journey around South America or across the Isthmus took weeks and was dangerous. While there were dangers in North America also, especially outlaws and Indians, but there was at least a chance of controlling these hazards. Not so the "Roaring 40s." Congress authorized the construction of a Northern, Southern and Central railroad in 1859, but did not provide any funding, but it did give away land no one in Washington had ever seen (in all likelihood). The Civil War prevented any steps in the direction of transcontinental railroads from being taken. Richardson wrote: "But what Government had failed to do, the steady course of emigration was accomplishing. The Mormon hegira from Illinois to Utah, the Mexican war, the California gold discoveries, the Kansas troubles, and the rush to Pike's Peak, had all car

Auction archive: Lot number 145
Auction:
Datum:
29 Aug 2019
Auction house:
Cowan's Auctions, Inc.
Este Ave 6270
Cincinnati OH 45232
United States
info@cowans.com
+1 (0)513 8711670
+1 (0)513 8718670
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