California Revisited 1858-1897
Newtown, PA: 1898.
First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo, 310 pp, with 14 halftone plates and additional illustrations in the text. Original gilt stamped black cloth. Some scuffing and small tears to cloth on rear board, else a fine, bright copy. Kenderdine made two trips from the east to California nearly four decades apart, in 1858 and 1897. In this book he describes the changes he observed on his second trip, among them the considerable impact of the railroads, the arrival of Chinese labor, and the decline of the Native American population. He spent time in San Francisco and Monterey before heading south to the Los Angeles area, Pasadena, and San Bernardino, and then back up through the Sacramento Valley and gold country. There is also a chapter devoted to Utah and the Mormons and another to Yellowstone. Cowan p. 326, Howes H-77, Flake-Draper 4581.
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