Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California by Kelly, Charles - 1969

Salt Lake City, UT: Western Epics, 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 182pp. Quarto [23.5] Red cloth over boards with title stamped in gilt on spine and front board. Illustrated map endpapers. Minor bumping to extremities. Dustjacket has multiple small tears, both open and closed. A comprehensive history of the various ways travelers have attempted to cross the Salt Desert, including the Donner Party.

Salt Lake City. : Western Epics. , 1969. Red cloth gold titles, map endpapers. . Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a cup ring to the back panel and a little soiling to the spine. . 23.5x15.5 cm. . “A history of the Hastings Cutoff and other early trails which crossed the Great Salt Desert seeking a shorter road to California”. weight: 1.2 lb. 10 pages of illustrations.

Western Printing Company, 1930. Hardcover. Good. . Buckram binding cover shows minor wear and rubbing. A bit of minor writing and scribbles in the prelims, pages show a bit of minor annotation.

Salt Lake City, UT: Western Printing Company, 1930. First Edition . Cloth - Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 178 pages, plus index. Covers show light scuffs. Small Booksellers stick at lower edge of bottom paste down. Volume remains tight and is otherwise very clean and intact.

Salt Lake City:: Western Printing,, 1930.. First edition.. publisher's pebbled cloth.. Touch of wear to head of spine; but a very nice copy.. 8vo,. Howes K-59.

Western Printing Co., January 1930. Hardcover. Good - Cash. Signed by author with inscription 'To My Friend Bill' on first free end page. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Rubbing to edges. Cloth showing through on corners and edges of spine. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Fine ; nearly as new but with two small circular areas of mild discoloration to bottom edge of textblock not affecting marginsPlease see photos. No jacket.. Quarto in dark green blind-stamped 'pebbled' and illus boards; 5 preliminary leaves, [15]-178, [3] pages illustrations, portraits, facsimile 24 cm. Maps on lining-papers; bibliographical references. An impressively crisp copy. / Pioneers -- Utah. Trails -- West (U.S.) Pionniers -- Utah. Discoveries in geography. Pioneers. Trails. Named Person: Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870. Great Salt Lake (Utah) United States -- Discovery and exploration. Salé, Grand lac (Utah) United States. West United States. Utah. Utah -- Great Salt Lake.

Western Epics, 1969-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. LIMITED EDITION; #43 OF 128 COPIES; SIGNED BY AUTHOR!

1930. KELLY, Charles. Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails Which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California. Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. 1st ed. Illus., map endpapers. 178,[3, index]pp. Orig. flexible pictorial cloth. Near fine. Presentation inscription from the author on front endpaper, "To my good friends Gus and Alice from Charles Kelly, Christmas 1930."HOWES K59.

Salt Lake City: Western Printing Company, 1930. First edition. 178,pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Original pebbled brown boards with a green, gilt and blind stamped title, wagon and pioneer design on the front cover. Good/Near fine. Remnants of the scarce dust jacket remain. Attractive period book plate on front pastedown. Otherwise in nice, clean condition. A great work on the different explorers and groups that crossed the Salt Flats,from the earliest nineteenth century. Includes accounts on Jedediah Smith, Bartleson, Fremont, Clyman, the ill-fated Donner Party, Stansbury and early twentieth century motor travel. "The Great Salt Lake in its present state extends seventy-five miles north and south, with an approximate width an approximate width of fifty miles. To the west lies a great desolate expand called the Salt Desert, with a length of one hundred miles and a width of seventy-five. This great level salt plain was in geologically recent times a part of the Great Salt Lake, and even now lies only a few… Read More