My Adventures in the Sierras
Wilson, Obed G.
Verkäufer Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, USA
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AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 9. August 1997
Verkäufer Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
AbeBooks-Verkäufer seit 9. August 1997
Beschreibung
19 x 13 cm. 12mo. 215pp. Bound in dark red cloth with gilt lettering. Portrat of the author opposite page 1. Fading to spine. Musy aroma. Name on front free endpaper. A few of the later pages show some creasing/wrinkling. An scarce account of mining life in california in the last half of the 1850s. Begins with an account of Wilson's journey to California by way of Nicaragua. Includes a description of skiiing, which Wilson calls coasting on snow shoes, which became popular in America in the 1870's. The author also describes meeting Jim "Bloody Arm" Beckwourth, a multi-racial author and frontiersman of the American west. Howes W533. Streeter V: 3028. Graff 4707. Cowan, 1914, p. 251. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 71498
Bibliografische Details
Titel: My Adventures in the Sierras
Verlag: The Editor Publishing Co., Franklin, Ohio
Erscheinungsdatum: 1902
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: First edition.
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