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The March of Empire Through Three Decades
The March of Empire Through Three Decades
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Author: Stafford, Mrs. Mallie
Title: The March of Empire Through Three Decades. Embracing Sketches of California History...
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:Geo. Spaulding & Co.
Date Published: 1884
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189 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of the author with her facsimile autograph. 17.5x11.8 cm. (6¾x4½ "), original brown cloth, front cover stamped in black. First Edition.



A rare account by a woman who witnessed early western expansion firsthand. Mallie Stafford went to California in 1854 via Panama; she and her husband lived in Nevada City, then Marysville. She moved to Nebraska on the eve of the Civil War, then lived in Denver while her husband worked the Colorado mines. Howes S684; Graff 3939; Cowan (II), p. 606; Mintz 604.

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Some wear and soiling to cloth, front hinge starting; very good.
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