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Author: Bunnell, Lafayette Houghton
Title: The Discovery of the Yosemite and the Indian War of 1851, Which Led to that Event
Place Published: Chicago
Publisher:Flemming H. Revell
Date Published: [1880]
Description: 31 pp. With 7 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece & map; 14 wood engravings in the text. (8vo) 19.5x13 cm (7¾x5"), cloth decorated in black, lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. First Edition.While it is probable that the Walker party saw Yosemite Valley from its rim in 1833, and more than one prospector or hunter (including William Penn Abrams and U.N. Reamer in October 1849) stumbled across it as well, it was the March 27, 1851, incident, when the Mariposa Battalion pursued Indians into the valley, that brought Yosemite to the attention of the general public. The narrative of Bunnell, and the diaries of Robert Eccleston, are the principal sources of information on the Mariposa Indian War. The first edition is much scarcer than the reprints that followed. Currey & Kruska 27.

Some wear to corners and spine ends, which are frayed, spine a bit darkened with rub marks, a few small bubbles to front cover cloth, hinges cracked (possibly with earlier repairs?); very good, better than usually found.