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Ca;ofprmoa: Self Published, 1959. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 7" x 8 1/2. 46 Pages. Staple bound with stagecoach scene on wrap-around covers. Owner's name inked with one line at bottom of title page. No other marks or stamps. Faultless interior. Map. Every page is illustrated with black and white photographs accompanied by appropriate descriptive text. The historic phhotographs show not only the places but the faces fo the Mother Lode. It was after the first rush of goldseekers came and laid bare the hills and rivers of the state that the true golden promise of California was discovered in these men and women who stayed and created a great state from what almost a wilderness. This is their story. Covers 1849 thru the 1890s.
California's Mother Lode: A Pictorial History by Crosley, Mary Edith - 1959
by Crosley, Mary Edith
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California's Mother Lode: A Pictorial History
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Crosley, 1959. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Photographs and maps with descriptive text. 46p. Lain in reprint "Gold: King of Metals" from the 1965 issue of Reader's Digest. In the United States, Mother Lode is most famously the name given to a long alignment of hard-rock gold deposits stretching northwest-southeast in the Sierra Nevada of California. It was discovered in the early 1850s, during the California gold rush.
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Diatrope Books
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- Publisher Crosley
- Date Published 1959
- Keywords California, American Studies, Gold Rush, Exploration, 19th Century California, History, Ephemera, Mother Lode, Photography, Wells Fargo
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California's Mother Lode
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California's Mother Lode
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By Author, 1959. Stapled Binding. Very Good. Profusely illustrated with photographs, 46 pages. Clean unmarked copy, solid binding.
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