Across the Continent

by BOWLES, Samuel

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Book description: Springfield, Mass., New York: Samuel Bowles & Company, Hurd & Houghton , 1866. Second edition. Octavo. [2, advertisements], xx, 452, [2] pp. plus 6 pp. advertisements. Folding frontispiece map (ÒMap of the Territories & Pacific StatesÓ). Original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Some bubbling to cloth, darkening and rubbing to spine and covers, folding ap with one small tear. Otherwise a very good, tight copy. ÒSamuel Bowles and his party left Atchison, Kansas on May 21, 1865 for San Francisco by way of Salt Lake and across central Nevada, stopping at Austin and Virginia City. They reached the Pacific at the end of June, and traveled overland up the coast to British Columbia, returning to San Francisco by steamer. They visited Yosemite in August and were back in New York by the end of September. The book is composed of BowlesÕs letters to the Springfield Republican, revised and expanded. The extra chapter in 410:2 ÔThe Gold Mines of California and the Silver Mines of Nevada,Õ furnishes the reader with an engineerÕs view of the Comstock minesÓ (Wagner-Camp).Cowan II, p. 67. Graff 370. Howell 318 and 319. Sabin 7077. Wagner-Camp 410:2. Wheat, Transmississippi West, V, 1115.

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