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Author: Udell, John
Title: Incidents of Travel to California, Across the Great Plains; Together with the Return Trips through Central America and Jamaica; To which are added Sketches of the Author's Life
Place Published: Jefferson, Ohio
Publisher:Printed for the Author, at the Sentinel Office
Date Published: 1856
Description: 302 pp. + errata leaf. Illustrated with copper-engraved frontispiece. 17.9x11.1 cm (7x4½"), original blindstamped cloth, lettering on spine in gilt. First Edition.John Udell's Diary from January 1850 to July of 1855 takes up the first 113 pages, with the remainder being an autobiographical sketch. Wagner-Camp notes that "Between 1850 and 1860, John Udell crossed the Great Plains to California four times before settling there permanently... Udell traveled the Platte River route, through South Pass, going southwest to Salt Lake City, and then to the Humboldt River by way of Hastings' Cutoff..." Cowan p.648; Graff 4230; Howes U3; Streeter 3180; Wagner-Camp 281. Ex-libris ink stamps present on edges and title, bookplate of Americana collector Frank C. Deering.

Corners bowed, faint rubbing to cloth; foxing to blanks, offsetting from type; very good.