Alonzo Delano Life on the Plains 1854
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Author: Delano, Alonzo
Title: Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the 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
Place Published: Auburn & Buffalo
Publisher:Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Date Published: 1854
Description: 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 7½x4¾", original blindstamped tan-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Signed and inscribed "...The Author". "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Cowan p.163; Graff 1042; Howes D230; Kurutz 177a; Rocq 6041; Sabin 19348; Wagner-Camp 238:1; Wheat Books 57.
Author: Delano, Alonzo
Title: Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the 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
Place Published: Auburn & Buffalo
Publisher:Miller, Orton & Mulligan
Date Published: 1854
Description: 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. 7½x4¾", original blindstamped tan-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition.Signed and inscribed "...The Author". "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Cowan p.163; Graff 1042; Howes D230; Kurutz 177a; Rocq 6041; Sabin 19348; Wagner-Camp 238:1; Wheat Books 57.
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Cloth stained, edges worn; endpapers toned and stained, front hinge starting, ffep detaching; some pages and plates dampstained, other light stains and foxing.
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Alonzo Delano Life on the Plains 1854
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