Kelly, Charles

Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and other Early Trails which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930.

First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 178 pp + index, bound in flexible embossed buckram boards, with map endpapers. Light rubbing along front joint, else fine. "The Hastings Cutoff was an alternative route for westward emigrants to travel to California, as proposed by Lansford Hastings in The Emigrant's Guide to Oregon and California. The ill-fated Donner Party infamously took the route in 1846" (wiki). Flake-Draper 4565 ("has some material on the Mormon pioneers"), Howes K-59.

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Price: $60.00