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Capt. J. D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts to San Francisco, Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields

Capt. J. D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts to San Francisco, Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields

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Capt. J. D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts to San Francisco, Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields

by Winchester, Capt. J. D

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Salem: Newcomb & Gauss, 1900. First Edition. Very Good. [9.5x6.5in] 251 pp. frontispiece image of Author's log cabin and miners, 25 plates and 12 in text sketches by the Author; Dark blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine, blind stamped borders on covers, all edges trimmed; Some shelf wear and soiling to covers, edges and corners bumped and frayed, spotting wear to top front cover and spine with some loss of spine text, closed tear to lower title page, age toning to page edges, front hinge cracked. [Kurutz Alaska 623, Arctic Biblio 19606, Wickersham 80, Graff 4712, Ricks p.259 ]. Captain James D. Winchester caught the Alaskan gold fever and joined the Lynn Mining Company in 1897. Typical of the mining companies of the California gold rush 50 years earlier, the Lynn company bought a schooner and sailed to San Francisco through the Straits of Magellan and then took a steamer to Seattle, a barque to Alaska and then paddlewheel to St. Michaels and then up the Yukon river. The book is a delightful read of the mining adventures on the lower Yukon. Winchester returned to Massachusetts by way of the Great Northern Railroad in 1899.

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David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA US (US)
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Title
Capt. J. D. Winchester's Experience on a Voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts to San Francisco, Cal. and to the Alaskan Gold Fields
Author
Winchester, Capt. J. D
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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First Edition
Publisher
Newcomb & Gauss
Place of Publication
Salem
Date Published
1900
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About David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA

David Spilman Fine Books, ABAA & IOBA is an online bookseller specializing in fine books, maps, publications, and ephemera related to Exploration, Adventure and World History with a focus on the Polar Regions, California and the American West. A particular interest is in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration from 1895 to 1920's. Other areas of interest are in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and a little bit of this and that.

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