ACROSS THE CONTINENT: A SUMMER'S JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE MORMONS, AND THE PACIFIC STATES, WITH SPEAKER COLFAX.
Bowles, Samuel:
Springfield. 1865. 452pp. Colored folding map. Original cloth. Frayed at head and toe of spine, inner hinges broken, tears at folds of map, else good. The second issue with the added pages on California and the mines by William Ashburner. Bowles' party left Kansas in May 1865, reached San Francisco in July, and travelled thence to Oregon and Washington by steamer. In August they saw Yosemite, returning to New York the following month. The "Map of the Territories and Pacific States" is of some measure of importance. COWAN, p.67. GRAFF 370. SABIN 7077. FLAKE 767. SMITH 983. WAGNER-CAMP 410:2.
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