ACROSS THE PLAINS IN FORTY-NINE.
Farmland, Ind. W. C. West, 1896. First edition. 200 pp., frontispiece; 12mo, original green cloth with gilt title. Custom slipcase. Slight wear to covers, frontispiece tissue guard slightly stained, small ex libris at upper corner of front fixed endpaper, about very good. Item #23612
R. C. Shaw was a member of an overland party numbering some 50 men nder the rubric "the Mount Washington Mining Company." Their Boston-to-California expedition began in April and concluded in September, 1849. The first leg of the journey was via rail and steam boat from Boston to Indepence, Missouri, thence by horseback. A fine account.Graff 3744; Howes S349; Kurutz 571a.
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