THE MULE MEN: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada.
by Jackson, Louise A
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).
- ISBN 10
- 0878424997
- ISBN 13
- 9780878424993
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Missoula, Montana:: Mountain Press,, (2004). SIGNED first edition -. Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback original. A book which covers two hundred years, from the 1750s to the 1950s, of stock packing in the southern Sierra Nevada, the backcountry containing most of California's wilderness and national park lands - from From Yosemite to the Tehachapis, the Tuolumne River to the Kern, lands which are above and beyond any major roadways, the wild areas where the majority of the modern Sierra packers have plied their trade. Illustrated throughout with photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Includes several appendices listing historical pack outfits, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 256 pp.
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- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 88465
- Title
- THE MULE MEN: A History of Stock Packing in the Sierra Nevada.
- Author
- Jackson, Louise A
- Format/Binding
- SIGNED first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in glossy illustrated wrappers (crease on front cover).
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0878424997
- ISBN 13
- 9780878424993
- Publisher
- Mountain Press,
- Place of Publication
- Missoula, Montana:
- Date Published
- (2004)
- Keywords
- western americana, yosemite,
- Bookseller catalogs
- California;
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