THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OVERLAND DIARY 1850-1852: With a biographical sketch and comment on a modern tracing of his overland travel by his grandson Bruce L. McKinstry
by MCKINSTRY, Byron N
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/fine
- ISBN 10
- 0870621149
- ISBN 13
- 9780870621147
- Seller
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About This Item
Glendale, CA: Arthur H. Clarke Company, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. plates, map. 8vo, 401pp., red cloth; cream dj; unread
American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." [Not in Wagner-Camp, Mintz, or Cowan]. Illustrated with 38 images, mostly photographic supplied by the grandson, and a map.
American Trails Series X. Foreword by Ray Allen Billington. "Diary exceptional on its own account for the thoroughness of overland coverage, penetrating observations of human character and trail geography, and a felicitous literary style. It becomes a classic through interpolations of grandson Bruce, who spent twenty-four seasons retracing every foot of Byron's route - Mattes, 894." [Not in Wagner-Camp, Mintz, or Cowan]. Illustrated with 38 images, mostly photographic supplied by the grandson, and a map.
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- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20220743
- Title
- THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OVERLAND DIARY 1850-1852
- Author
- MCKINSTRY, Byron N
- Illustrator
- plates, map
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0870621149
- ISBN 13
- 9780870621147
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clarke Company
- Place of Publication
- Glendale, CA
- Date Published
- 1975
- Keywords
- California, Ray Allen Billington, gold rush, forty-niners, overland travel, Illinois, American trails series,
- Bookseller catalogs
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers;
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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