Miles Goodyear: First Citizen of Utah Trader, Trapper and California Pioneer (INSCRIBED)

Kelly, Charles and Maurice L. Howe

Verlag: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, Salt Lake City, 1937

Beschreibung

Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe, with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates. 4 page prospectus laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering in green printed dustjacket. Fading to spine; ligth wear to extremities; else a near fine copy. Miles Morris Goodyear (1817-1849) was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah. A cabin built there by Goodyear, as far as known, is the first permanent house built in Utah. Goodyear eventually moved to California and engaged in horse-trading and gold mining. He acquired land at Benicia and made a gold discovery on the Yuba River at "Goodyear's Bar." - wiki. (Howes K56). First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17916

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Miles Goodyear: First Citizen of Utah Trader, Trapper and California Pioneer (INSCRIBED)
• Verlag: Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, Salt Lake City
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1937
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Western Americana