Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax
Springfield and New York: Samuel Bowles & Company; Hurd & Houghton, 1866.
Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint (first published 1865). 452 pp, with colored folding map. Original brown cloth. Spine is lightly sunned, has a small spot of damage to the cloth affecting the word "Across," and minor wear to head and tail. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Binding tight, text clean, map in very good condition other than small closed tear at gutter; very good. Wagner-Camp (410): "Samuel Bowles and his party left Atchison, Kansas on May 21, 1865 for San Francisco by way of Salt Lake and across central Nevada, stopping at Austin and Virginia City. They reached the Pacific at the end of June, and traveled overland up the the coast to British Columbia, returning to San Francisco by steamer. They visited Yosemite in August...." Curry & Kruska 19: "Pages 223 -37 comprise a description of Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tre Grove. Bowles notes that there had been 300 visitors to the valley so far that season, compared to 100 in 1864. He refers to the recent Yosemite Grant and commends the idea of preserving the valley as a public park." Graff 370; Sabin 7077; Flake 767.
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