A PIONEER MOTHER OF CALIFORNIA...WRITTEN FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN TO SHOW THEM HOW THE EMIGRANTS CROSSED THE PLAINS, AND ALSO WHAT MANNER OF PERSON WAS THEIR GREAT GRANDMOTHER.
Brooks, Elisha:
San Francisco. 1922. 61pp. Two portraits tipped in. Original cloth. Somewhat rubbed. Very good. Presentation inscription from the author. The first edition of only 100 copies was published the same year and is so rare that Howes does not even note its existence, proclaiming this the first edition. The narrative describes a trip across the plains in 1852, when the author, then age eleven, went with his mother to join his father, who had gone overland in 1850. GRAFF 412. HOWES B815. COWAN, p.74. ROCQ 14325. KURUTZ 79b.
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