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Auction archive: Lot number 32

CALIFORNIA] [WESTERN AMERICANA] JENKS, Daniel A Manuscript...

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$80,500
Auction archive: Lot number 32

CALIFORNIA] [WESTERN AMERICANA] JENKS, Daniel A Manuscript...

Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$80,500
Beschreibung:

CALIFORNIA.] [WESTERN AMERICANA.] JENKS, Daniel A. Manuscript diary, Pawtucket, R.I., 28 February 1859 - Yreka, California, 1 February 1860. A fair copy made by Jenks for his sister Maria, transcribed December 1859-Febuary 1860, from notebooks Jenks kept during his journey. 283 pages, octavo, diced calf stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 45,000 words. -- JENKS. Manuscript Journal of "Trip from Yreka to Idaho, Overland 1863," Yreka, California 23 September 1863 - Portland, Oregon 22 July 1865. 178 pages, octavo, red morocco stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 18,000 words, including 14 pen and crayon illustrations (leaves torn away at end).
CALIFORNIA.] [WESTERN AMERICANA.] JENKS, Daniel A. Manuscript diary, Pawtucket, R.I., 28 February 1859 - Yreka, California, 1 February 1860. A fair copy made by Jenks for his sister Maria, transcribed December 1859-Febuary 1860, from notebooks Jenks kept during his journey. 283 pages, octavo, diced calf stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 45,000 words. -- JENKS. Manuscript Journal of "Trip from Yreka to Idaho, Overland 1863," Yreka, California 23 September 1863 - Portland, Oregon 22 July 1865. 178 pages, octavo, red morocco stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 18,000 words, including 14 pen and crayon illustrations (leaves torn away at end). "MY FINGERS FAIRLY ITCHED TO PULL TRIGGER ON HIM." BATTLING MORMONS AND INDIANS FROM KANSAS CITY TO CALIFORNIA VIA SALT LAKE CITY "I CANNOT GO BACK...I'LL TRY OLD CALIFORNIA AGAIN." Two extraordinary, dramatic and lavishly illustrated journals that document Jenks's return to California across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains via Salt Lake City; and depict deadly Indian battles in a trek to Idaho Territory. Drawn by reports of gold at Pike's Peak, Jenks is not surprised that these claims prove false. 5 May 1859: "We met the advance guard of disappointing returning Pikes Peakers...and a more disappointed crew, or longer faces I never saw. Curses both loud and deep were showered by them upon the originators of this ------ humbug." He decides to press on to California. By 29 June he is in Salt Lake City. "Here we are at last at Mormon headquarters...The Mormons say Uncle Sam is a ------ old dotard, for they have succeeded in having things all their own way, and the longer he keeps his soldiers here the better for them, for this army requires provisions, hay and grain, and who is to supply them and at good round prices too but Mormon farmers..." On 3 July 1859 he offers a very jaundiced analysis of Mormon culture. The leaders were "smart scheming men" who preyed upon "many thousands of the lowest class of foreigners" who had emigrated into Utah, and "are led around by the nose." The Mormon leaders relied on "still another class," the "desperadoes of California and the States" who beat, rob or even kill, at the behest of the leaders. As if to prove his analysis, his 5 July entry describes the extortion exacted from his group as they tried to leave Ogden. A "bridge thief" in the company of "Elder Richardson a Mormon leader and Sheriff of this district," demanded payment of eight dollars. If they resisted Richardson said he would summon a posse "sufficiently strong to take us." Jenks reluctantly paid, but got his money's worth in verbal abuse. "I twitted him of the Mountain Meadow massacre and he said he had never been so roundly abused before in his life. I told him I had paid him for the right to abuse him and intended to do so. All of this time we both had our hands upon our revolvers, and I intended to shoot him the first motion he made towards me." Jenks had never wanted to shoot a man before, "but my fingers fairly itched to pull trigger on him." He describes how the Mormons have allied with various Indian tribes. "Does not this of itself show that these vipers at Salt Lake have been active in prejudicing these savages against all white men but Mormons?" The fifth and final diary relates his journey a few years later, driving some livestock from Yreka, California to Idaho Territory. On 4 December 1863 he gives a dramatic description of a bloody clash following the theft of cattle by a band of Indians. Jenks and a party of 12 men tracked the cattle thieves "over hill and valley all day" then stole upon their encampment "so quietly that Mr Indian never mistrusted a foe was near. We finally about midnight had crawled on hands and knees up to within twenty feet of where at least a dozen great strapping red legged devils lay sprawled out." They opened fire, sending them fleeing up the sides of the canyon where four other riflemen cut down several more. In the dark they could not b

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
7 December 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

CALIFORNIA.] [WESTERN AMERICANA.] JENKS, Daniel A. Manuscript diary, Pawtucket, R.I., 28 February 1859 - Yreka, California, 1 February 1860. A fair copy made by Jenks for his sister Maria, transcribed December 1859-Febuary 1860, from notebooks Jenks kept during his journey. 283 pages, octavo, diced calf stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 45,000 words. -- JENKS. Manuscript Journal of "Trip from Yreka to Idaho, Overland 1863," Yreka, California 23 September 1863 - Portland, Oregon 22 July 1865. 178 pages, octavo, red morocco stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 18,000 words, including 14 pen and crayon illustrations (leaves torn away at end).
CALIFORNIA.] [WESTERN AMERICANA.] JENKS, Daniel A. Manuscript diary, Pawtucket, R.I., 28 February 1859 - Yreka, California, 1 February 1860. A fair copy made by Jenks for his sister Maria, transcribed December 1859-Febuary 1860, from notebooks Jenks kept during his journey. 283 pages, octavo, diced calf stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 45,000 words. -- JENKS. Manuscript Journal of "Trip from Yreka to Idaho, Overland 1863," Yreka, California 23 September 1863 - Portland, Oregon 22 July 1865. 178 pages, octavo, red morocco stamped in gilt (spine cracked). Some 18,000 words, including 14 pen and crayon illustrations (leaves torn away at end). "MY FINGERS FAIRLY ITCHED TO PULL TRIGGER ON HIM." BATTLING MORMONS AND INDIANS FROM KANSAS CITY TO CALIFORNIA VIA SALT LAKE CITY "I CANNOT GO BACK...I'LL TRY OLD CALIFORNIA AGAIN." Two extraordinary, dramatic and lavishly illustrated journals that document Jenks's return to California across the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains via Salt Lake City; and depict deadly Indian battles in a trek to Idaho Territory. Drawn by reports of gold at Pike's Peak, Jenks is not surprised that these claims prove false. 5 May 1859: "We met the advance guard of disappointing returning Pikes Peakers...and a more disappointed crew, or longer faces I never saw. Curses both loud and deep were showered by them upon the originators of this ------ humbug." He decides to press on to California. By 29 June he is in Salt Lake City. "Here we are at last at Mormon headquarters...The Mormons say Uncle Sam is a ------ old dotard, for they have succeeded in having things all their own way, and the longer he keeps his soldiers here the better for them, for this army requires provisions, hay and grain, and who is to supply them and at good round prices too but Mormon farmers..." On 3 July 1859 he offers a very jaundiced analysis of Mormon culture. The leaders were "smart scheming men" who preyed upon "many thousands of the lowest class of foreigners" who had emigrated into Utah, and "are led around by the nose." The Mormon leaders relied on "still another class," the "desperadoes of California and the States" who beat, rob or even kill, at the behest of the leaders. As if to prove his analysis, his 5 July entry describes the extortion exacted from his group as they tried to leave Ogden. A "bridge thief" in the company of "Elder Richardson a Mormon leader and Sheriff of this district," demanded payment of eight dollars. If they resisted Richardson said he would summon a posse "sufficiently strong to take us." Jenks reluctantly paid, but got his money's worth in verbal abuse. "I twitted him of the Mountain Meadow massacre and he said he had never been so roundly abused before in his life. I told him I had paid him for the right to abuse him and intended to do so. All of this time we both had our hands upon our revolvers, and I intended to shoot him the first motion he made towards me." Jenks had never wanted to shoot a man before, "but my fingers fairly itched to pull trigger on him." He describes how the Mormons have allied with various Indian tribes. "Does not this of itself show that these vipers at Salt Lake have been active in prejudicing these savages against all white men but Mormons?" The fifth and final diary relates his journey a few years later, driving some livestock from Yreka, California to Idaho Territory. On 4 December 1863 he gives a dramatic description of a bloody clash following the theft of cattle by a band of Indians. Jenks and a party of 12 men tracked the cattle thieves "over hill and valley all day" then stole upon their encampment "so quietly that Mr Indian never mistrusted a foe was near. We finally about midnight had crawled on hands and knees up to within twenty feet of where at least a dozen great strapping red legged devils lay sprawled out." They opened fire, sending them fleeing up the sides of the canyon where four other riflemen cut down several more. In the dark they could not b

Auction archive: Lot number 32
Auction:
Datum:
7 Dec 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
7 December 2012, New York, Rockefeller Center
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