CAMPING IN COLORADO: "With Suggestions to Gold-Seekers, Tourists and Invalids"
by Gordon, S. Anna
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/4 inches) New York: W. B. Smith & Co., 1882. Second Edition 201 pages + 8 pages of publisher's ads, dark red hardcover, cloth binding, with ornamental rules framing the title, centered in gilt on front cover beneath a gilt decoration of a riverside camping scene, ornamental rules at top and bottom of covers, and on spine. Very good condition (minor shelf wear to back cover, and along hinges; not affecting contents or overall good condition of the book).
"It has been the intention of the author of this volume to briefly portray the real features of a journey by rail over the great American Plains into the popular and more inviting resorts of the Rocky Mountains.""It has been a careful endeavor to make it attractive with incident of both journey and camp; and instructive and suggestive, by imparting such knowledge as it was her opportunity to gain from experience, observation, or otherwise; and to make it desirable by noting those points of interest that might hereafter be of practical importance to the reader, either as citizen, invalid, or tourist."
"Herein are pen sketches of what we saw along the way. . . . " Twenty-five chapters covering topics that include serving dinner, Native jewelry, climate, rattlesnakes, social customs, and bison, among others.
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- Bookseller
- Caravan Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1038
- Title
- CAMPING IN COLORADO
- Author
- Gordon, S. Anna
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- W. B. Smith & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1882
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Travel to Colorado in 1882
- Bookseller catalogs
- Americana; Old and Rare; Travel; Adventure; Western Americana; Antiquarian; Overland Travel; Colorado; Touring the West;
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