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Haskins' Argonauts of California With Index

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Title: The Argonauts of California: Being the Reminiscences of Scenes and Incidents that Occurred in California in Early Mining Days, by a Pioneer
Author: Haskins, C. W.
Description: 501 pp. Illustrated with wood-engravings & plates, most after the author. 9¼x6½, original gold-color cloth with pictorial in black & gilt, lettering in gilt. First Edition."Especially valuable because of the list of names of pioneers before 1850" - Graff. Howes notes that there are 35,000 of them. The author arrived in San Francisco via clipper ship on September 20, 1849. Sold with a copy of Spinazze's Index (1975). Cowan p.269; Graff 1812; Howes H383; Kurutz 319; Rocq 16913; Wheat Books 93.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Fords, Howard and Hulbert
Date Published: 1890