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1854 Gold Mining California Alonzo Delano Plains American Frontier Indians WEST

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1854 Gold Mining California Alonzo Delano Plains American Frontier Indians WEST

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1854 Gold Mining California Alonzo Delano Plains American Frontier Indians WEST

Life on the Plains and Among the Diggings is a rare, mid-19th-century account of Alonzo Delanos journey across America to California. This book has long been one of the best resources on the Westward Migration and the American frontier.

Perhaps the biographical references offer the best notes on this book.

Per Howes:

â€œOne of the best forty-niner narratives”

From Wheat:

â€œOne of the most forceful accounts of the journey to and of adventure in the mines of California, by a gifted observer and writer.”

Item number: #17343

Price: $499

DELANO, Alonzo

Life on the plains and among the diggings : being scenes and adventures of an overland journey to California : with particular incidents of the route, mistakes and sufferings of the emigrants, the Indian tribes, the present and the future of the great West

Auburn [N.Y.] : Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. 1st edition, â€œthird thousand”

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xi, [1], 384

4 engraved plates

References: Wagner-Camp 238; Howes D 230; Graff 1042; Rader 1104; Cowan p. 65; Wheat Gold Rush 57

Provenance: Stamp â€“ Jared H. Orr

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

Brown cloth

Size: ~7.75in X 5.5in (19.5cm x 14cm)

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