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McIlhany: Recollections of a '49er
McIlhany: Recollections of a '49er
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Author: McIlhany, Edward
Title: Recollections of a '49er. A Quaint and Thrilling Narrative of a Trip Across the Plains, and Life in the California Gold Fields During the Stirring Days following the Discovery of Gold in the Far West
Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher:Hailman Printing Company
Date Published: 1908
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212 pp. Double-frontispiece plates and 3 full-page illustrations. 19.5x13 cm (7¾x5 ¼"), original gilt stamped pictorial green cloth, spine gilt. First Edition.


McIlhany was 21 when he joined the Charleston Company of Jefferson County, Virginia, arriving in California on October 1, 1849. He emerged as a successful merchant, operating a store in Onion Valley, but became homesick and returned east in 1856. "[A] valuable description of mining, trading, and freighting in the Northern Mines..." - Kurutz. Cowan p.407; Graff 2614; Howes M111; Kurutz 419; Mintz 319; Wheat Books 133.

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Rubbing of extremeties, leaves a bit browned, bookplate of Edwin Stanton Fickes; very good or better.
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