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ACROSS THE PLAINS AND OVER THE DIVIDE: A MULE TRAIN JOURNEY FROM EAST TO WEST IN 1862, AND INCIDENCE CONNECTED THEREWITH. by Hewitt, Randall H - [1906]

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ACROSS THE PLAINS AND OVER THE DIVIDE: A MULE TRAIN JOURNEY FROM EAST TO WEST IN 1862, AND INCIDENCE CONNECTED THEREWITH.

by Hewitt, Randall H

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N.Y.: Broadway, [1906]. [3],521,[12]pp. Illus.,59 plates which includes the plate facing page 320 which appears in only a few copies, folding map. Original pictorial cloth. Greatly enlarged edition Howes H457. Smith 4394. Graff 1876: "One of the best of the Oregon trail narratives." Wagner-Camp-Becker 391 " Hewitt's journal was made, for the most part, over a hitherto unknown and dangerous route; from Dundee, Illinois to St. Joe, then up to Council Bluffs, overland to Laramie, Fort Hall, up to Coeur d'Alene, Spokane Falls, Portland and Olympia. He kept a careful diary, and this narrative is one of the few substantial accounts of an 1862 crossing." Streeter Sale 5:3211.
  • Bookseller Michael Ginsberg Books US (US)
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  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher Broadway
  • Place of Publication N.Y.
  • Date Published [1906]
  • Keywords HOWES; WAGNER-CAMP-BECKER; WESTERN AMERICANA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; WASHINGTON

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Across the Plains and Over the Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith

by HEWITT, Randall H

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New York: Broadway Publishing Co, 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Good+. 12mo. Pp. iii, 521, followed by 12 pages of advertisements. Frontis. portrait photograph with tissue guard. Illustrated with 58 black & white photos and painting reproductions on coated paper and one fold-out map. Bound in blue-gray cloth stamped with red lettering, mounted illustration on front. Top edge dyed brown, others untrimmed. Many leaves uncut. Bookplate of noted Western Americana collector Dr. George William Staempfli on front pastedown; free endpaper excised. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, some lettering worn from spine. District court clerk and publisher Hewitt stayed in Olympia, Washington from 1862 until moving to Los Angeles in 1876. In 1863 he published Notes by the Way at his Washington Standard newspaper office. This is his greatly expanded version of the migration train that was led by Medorem Crawford. GRAFF, 1875; SMITH, 4393. SOLIDAY I, 1099 ("a well written and detailed account of an overland journey… Read More
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