OUR NEW WEST. Records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific...
by Samuel Bowles
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Austin, Texas, United States
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About This Item
1. Our New West. Hartford Publishing Co. 1869. 524pp. Super condition. Dark brown textured cloth with blind-stamped borders on covers, gilt to spine and front cover, brown endpapers, tissued frontis, map, portraits and illustrations. Complete. Spine ends partially surface chipped to 1/8 inch. ""D W Price Ashland Pa"" finely penned on first blank endpaper. Else clean, bright and tight. Title continues. ""Records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean. Over the Plains-over the mountains-through the great interior basin-over the Sierra Nevadas-to and up and down the Pacific Coast, with details of the wonderful natural scenery, agriculture, mines, business, social life, progress, and prospects of Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia; including a full description fo the Pacific Railroad; and of the life of the Mormons, Indians, and Chinese. With map, portraits, and twelve full page illustrations by Samuel Bowles""
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- OUR NEW WEST. Records of travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific...
- Author
- Samuel Bowles
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- Used
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- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
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