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WEST WIND: The Life Story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe
by Watson, Douglas S
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0930704096
- ISBN 13
- 9780930704094
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
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About This Item
Los Angeles: Percy H. Booth, 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Limited to 100 copies, and signed and dated by publisher Percy Booth on the title page. A native of Tennessee, Walker (1798-1876) became a frontiersman in Missouri before reconnoitering the Far West under Captain Benjamin Bonneville. Walker's detachment of Bonneville's company were the first white men to make a westward crossing of the Sierra Nevada (1833) and perhaps the first to see Yosemite. He later led an expedition with J.B. Chiles (1843) and was a guide on Fremont's second and third expeditions (1844, 1845-46). Six illustrations and a folding map, with textual decorations by Lawrence A. Patterson. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered boards over a brown leather spine, with a printed paper spine label. A fine copy.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69064
- Title
- WEST WIND: The Life Story of Joseph Reddeford Walker, Knight of the Golden Horseshoe
- Author
- Watson, Douglas S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0930704096
- ISBN 13
- 9780930704094
- Publisher
- Percy H. Booth
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1934
- Keywords
- Western Americana, California, Exploration, Captain Benjamin Bonneville, John C. Fremont, Sierra Nevada, Yosemite
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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Covina, California
About Johnson Rare Books & Archives
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