ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE DONNER PARTY
by Murphy, Virginia Reed (Foreword by George R. Stewart)
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket
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About This Item
Palo Alto, California: Lewis Osborne, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Quarto. Blue, cloth-covered boards (10 in. x 8 in.) with gilt lettering to spine. 56 pp. including Bibliography. Limited to 1400 copies.Small indentation to bottom of front board. Small smudge to first page of Mr. Stewart's Foreword. Housed in plain, grey, dustjacket. Folding map laid in.
Written down forty-four years from when as a 12-year old survivor of the Donner Party, Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe Reed (later) Murphy recounted her tale mostly from memory, but consulted for details - sometimes inaccurately -- the text of McGlashan's 1879 account.
Written down forty-four years from when as a 12-year old survivor of the Donner Party, Virginia Elizabeth Backenstoe Reed (later) Murphy recounted her tale mostly from memory, but consulted for details - sometimes inaccurately -- the text of McGlashan's 1879 account.
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- Bookseller
- Aardvark Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85288
- Title
- ACROSS THE PLAINS IN THE DONNER PARTY
- Author
- Murphy, Virginia Reed (Foreword by George R. Stewart)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Edition
- Publisher
- Lewis Osborne
- Place of Publication
- Palo Alto, California
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- American Pioneers, Cannibalism, American Cannibalism, Travel and Exploration
- Bookseller catalogs
- Western Americana;
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