Item #2351434 Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax. Samuel Bowles.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.
Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.

Across the Continent: A Summer's Journey to the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax.

Springfield, Massachusetts / New York: Samuel Bowles & Company / Hurd & Houghton, 1865. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2351434

First edition (Sabin 7077 incorrectly lists the publication date as 1866). Top and bottom edges lightly stained, ink name on front flyleaf, small spot on rear board. Binding tight and square.

xix, [1], 437, [1], 6 pp. 8vo. A firsthand account of a mid-19th century journey to the Rocky Mountains, with chapters on Mormonism, polygamy, gold and silver mines, Washington and California, railways, and the return voyage by steamship through the isthmus of Panama. Hand-colored fold-out map of states and territories, with a super-imposed map of central California, precedes text.

Price: $125.00

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