Where Nature Lavished Her Bounties.
by (OREGON)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Ashland: Daily Tidings Press, [ca. 1925]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches). ]32] pp. with a photographic illustration on every page. Publisher's pictorial brown wrappers with a front cover design in red, green and black of a cabin in a forest. Very good condition.A promotional pamphlet stating the glories of Jackson County, Oregon. Jackson County is at the very southernmost part of the state and includes the cities of Medford and Ashland. Climate, timber, fruit growing, mining, daitying, etc., are all discussed. One item of note is the photograph of the private lodge of Jessie Winburn. Winburn was a New York advertising millionaire who picked up and moved to the Ashland watershed in 1922. "Winburn’s former wife claimed he fled New York to avoid paying her alimony. Winburn bought a place in the middle of the Ashland watershed, with a cabin named “Sap and Salt in the Woods,” complete with swimming pool and cattle. That got him accused of contaminating Ashland’s drinking water supply. But Winburn proved to be a generous philanthropist. When the Ashland Women’s Civic Improvement Club needed money for a clubhouse, Winburn built them the Winburn Way Community Center. He also donated two swans and trash cans for Lithia Park. Winburn bought Ashland’s nearly bankrupt Granite City Hospital from local doctors and spent $30,000 on improvements. A Jesse Winburn Society is still affiliated with today’s successor hospital" (NPR).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71438
- Title
- Where Nature Lavished Her Bounties.
- Author
- (OREGON)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Daily Tidings Press
- Place of Publication
- Ashland
- Date Published
- [ca. 1925]
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2012
Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- First Edition
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