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Title: Death Valley in '49
Author: Manly, William Lewis
Description: 498 pp. Frontispiece portrait; 3 plates from drawings. 7¾x5¼, original mustard cloth, front cover decorated and lettered in black, slipcase. First Edition."Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short-cut from Salt Lake City to California through the valley called ever after by this fearful name" - Howes. Cowan p.412; Edwards, Enduring Desert, p.162; Graff 2670; Howes M255; Kurutz 427a; Mattes 550; Zamorano Eighty 51.
Heading: Place Published: San Jose
Publisher: Pacific Tree and Vine Co.
Date Published: 1894