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Author: Langworthy, Franklin
Title: Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or, A Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California...
Place Published: Princeton
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1932
Description: (8vo) finely rebound by Root in brown gilt-ruled polished calf with gilt tooling, spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, gilt-ruled and ornamented dentelles, marbled endpapers, slipcase. Reprint.From the Narratives of the Trans-Mississippi Frontier series. Langworthy crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs on May 14, 1850. He reached Fort Laramie on June 13, South Pass on June 29, Granite Pass by way of Salt Lake City on September 9, and the Humboldt Sink on October 21, a total of 160 days from departure. This overland journey is captured in the first 180 pages. The balance of the text is devoted to California and his return trip via Nicaragua.
Author: Langworthy, Franklin
Title: Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and Mines: or, A Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California...
Place Published: Princeton
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Date Published: 1932
Description: (8vo) finely rebound by Root in brown gilt-ruled polished calf with gilt tooling, spine ruled in gilt, morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, gilt-ruled and ornamented dentelles, marbled endpapers, slipcase. Reprint.From the Narratives of the Trans-Mississippi Frontier series. Langworthy crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs on May 14, 1850. He reached Fort Laramie on June 13, South Pass on June 29, Granite Pass by way of Salt Lake City on September 9, and the Humboldt Sink on October 21, a total of 160 days from departure. This overland journey is captured in the first 180 pages. The balance of the text is devoted to California and his return trip via Nicaragua.
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