[WESTERN TRAVEL] Sessions, Francis C.

From Yellowstone Park to Alaska [Signed by the Author's Wife]

New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1890.

First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. pp. 186 + ix (Appendix on Alaska missions), 9 plates. some from photographs, others drawings by C.H. Warren. Original half-cloth with paper spine label, beveled edges. Boards somewhat worn, with some old insect damage, pages tanned. Contents clean, binding sound. Inscribed on the front pastedown "John M. Pugh from Mrs. F.C. Sessions." Pugh was a real estate developer from Iowa. Sessions was a Columbus, Ohio dry goods merchant who was also active in railroads, real estate and banking, and served as President of the Ohio Historical and Archaeological Society. The section on Yellowstone (40 pp) includes both history and personal observations. The Alaska section comprises the bulk of the narrative and includes description of glaciers, landscape, and Tlingit Indian life. There is also material on Washington and Oregon. Arctic Bib, 15776. Wickersham 6464, Smith 9335.

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