MEMORY PICTURES. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Braly, John Hyde:
[Los Angeles. 1912]. [3],263pp., plus portrait and numerous plates. Original pictorial half cloth and paper boards, spine gilt. A bit of shelf-wear. Formerly in the Advertising Department of the Union Pacific Railroad, and also its Historical Museum, with a few ink stamps. Internally very clean and neat. Very good. Printed in a limited edition for private circulation, this copy has an "author's compliments" card affixed to the front pastedown. Braly was born in Missouri and went overland to Oregon in 1847, and went to California in 1849 for the Gold Rush. He worked for a time as a teamster hauling freight to Nevada City and Grass Valley, and provides a valuable description of the town of Frémont and life in the mining camps. He moved his family to Santa Clara in 1850, and much of the book describes his life there, in Fresno (where he owned a bank and engaged in farming), and in Los Angeles. There is also a section on the women's suffrage movement. COWAN, p.69. KURUTZ 71. GRAFF 390. MINTZ 47. ROCQ 13998.
(Item ID: WRCAM39273) $300.00