MORGAN, Dale L., ed. The Overland Diary of James A. Pritchard from Kentucky to California in 1849. With a biography of Captain James A. Pritchard by Hugh Pritchard Williamson.
Item #0943
221 p.; 8vo; pictorial red cloth, gilt; printed paper dust jacket; 3 maps, [2 folding]; chart in in rear pocket. Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock, The Old West Pub. Co., 1959. First Edition. Designed and printed by Lawton Kennedy. Kurutz 519. Paher 1590. Including two nicely produced folding facsimiles of maps of the California Trail in 1849, by J. Goldsborough Bruff; facsimile map of the gold region in 1857, by George H. Goddard; folding Chart of travel via South Pass in 1849 by diarists in route to California, Oregon and Utah, compiled by Dale L. Morgan. "This overland diary certainly ranks as one of the most important, not only because of Pritchard's observations, but also because of the of editor Dale Morgan" [Kurutz]. Fine in very good, lightly chipped & tanned dust jacket. |
