DOTEN, Alfred. The Journals of Alfred Doten
Item #7077
2381 pp., includes cumulative index; 3 vols.; thick quartos; light brown cloth, in slipcase; frontis port., vol. 1; photograhs; reproductions; maps. Edited by Walter Van Tilburg Clark. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1973. First Edition. From the preface by Robert Morse Clark: "Alfred Doten was one of the 'old boys' who opened it all up in the Gold Rush, and he became a newspaperman of considerable importance in that other major experience of our mining frontier, the Nevada silver boom." The original journals commenced in March of 1849 with the voyage around the Horn, and ended 79 leather bound volumes later with his death in 1903, hardly missing a day. Incredibly detailed descriptions of life in the Mother Lode, an important historical record of the Comstock after 1878, in a lively narrative that includes the fancies and foibles of everyday life. [Kurutz, 201; Paher, 491]. Fine condition in like slipcase. |
