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McIlhany's Recollections of a Forty-Niner

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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
Author: McIlhany, Edward
Description: 212 pp. Double-frontispiece plates and 3 full-page illustrations. 7¾x5¼, original gilt stamped pictorial red 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.
Heading: Place Published: Kansas City
Publisher: Hailman Printing Company
Date Published: 1908