Across the Plains and Over the Great Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith.
by HEWITT, Randall H
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- Hardcover
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: Broadway Publishing, (1906). Third edition, great enlarged by the author's nephew. Octavo. iii, [1], 521, [1], [12, publisher's ads] pp. plus numerous full page illustrations and a foldout map. Publisher's green cloth with red spine and cover lettering, front cover with laid down plate as issued. Zane Grey's copy with his customary purple signature on front pastedown and his blind-stamp on front endpaper. Spine ends a little pushed in, but a very good and clean copy.First appeared in 1863 under the title Notes by the Way. Hewitt came to the Pacific Northwest in 1862 via the South Pass and these are his memories of that trip.
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- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72781
- Title
- Across the Plains and Over the Great Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith.
- Author
- HEWITT, Randall H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Broadway Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1906)
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Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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