SCENERY OF THE PLAINS, MOUNTAINS AND MINES: or, A Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake:. Travels in the Cities, Mines, and Agricultural Districts- Embracing the Return by the Pacific Ocean and Central America, In the Years 1850, '51,'52,and '53.
Ogdensburgh: J. C. Sprague, Book-Seller, 1855. 324p, cloth, wear to edges and spine extremities, foxing, notes on endpapers and fly-leaf, fair - good. First edition. Howes, USiana, L84. An early and important account, based upon the author's daily diaries, of the journey to California, his experiences in the gold fields.....