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Miles Goodyear. First Citizen of Utah: Trapper, Trader and California Pioneer
by Kelly, Charles and Maurice L. Howe
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- Signed
- first
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Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1937. First Edition. 152pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Light green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good/Very good. Spine of jacket sunfaded. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Inscribed by the author, Charles Kelly, on the front free endsheet. The printing of this book was limited to 350 numbered copies, this is copy 344. Goodyear went overland to the Rockies with the Whitman party in 1836 to seek independence and adventure. He became a trapper and trader, built the first home in Utah, and was a California pioneer of 1849. Howes K56
Charles Kelly (1889-1971) was a writer of Western history and a collector of Western lore and an historian of the American West whose work focuses on activities in the western salt desert of Utah and Nevada. He was also a printer, painter and superintendent of Capitol Reef National Monument. He was a partner for the Western Printing Company, where he remained until 1940.
Charles Kelly (1889-1971) was a writer of Western history and a collector of Western lore and an historian of the American West whose work focuses on activities in the western salt desert of Utah and Nevada. He was also a printer, painter and superintendent of Capitol Reef National Monument. He was a partner for the Western Printing Company, where he remained until 1940.
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- Bookseller
- Tschanz Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7913
- Title
- Miles Goodyear. First Citizen of Utah: Trapper, Trader and California Pioneer
- Author
- Kelly, Charles and Maurice L. Howe
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Western Printing Company
- Place of Publication
- Salt Lake City
- Date Published
- 1937
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About the Seller
Tschanz Rare Books
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Salt Lake City, Utah
About Tschanz Rare Books
We actively buy and sell books, photographs, ephemera, maps, and objects in our specialties: Utah and the Mormons, Interior West, Western National Parks, Western Indians, Railroads and Western Americana generally.
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- Gilt
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- Octavo
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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