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Philosopher Pickett. The life and writings of Charles Edward Pickett, Esq., of Virginia, who came overland to the Pacific Coast in 1842-43 and for forty years waged war with pen and pamphlet against all manner of public abuses in Oregon and California..
by POWELL, LAWRENCE CLARK
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Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 178; frontispiece facsimile of the Flumgudgeon Gazette, 2 plates, and 1 illustration in the text; very good in original red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and a somewhat soiled and rubbed dustjacket. This copy signed by the author on the title-page in blue ink and with the small pictorial printed plate of The Holmes Book Co., Oakland, CA, mounted to back pastedown. "Including also," as the title-page states, "unpublished letters written by [Pickett] from Yerba Buena at the time of the conquest of California by the United States in 1846-47."
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- Title
- Philosopher Pickett. The life and writings of Charles Edward Pickett, Esq., of Virginia, who came overland to the Pacific Coast in 1842-43 and for forty years waged war with pen and pamphlet against all manner of public abuses in Oregon and California..
- Author
- POWELL, LAWRENCE CLARK
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley & Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1942
- Keywords
- Journalism , California American West , Biography , Political Politics Pamphleteering
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