Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine 1894
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Author: Leeper, David Rohrer
Title: The Argonauts of 'Forty-Nine: Some Recollections of the Plains and the Diggings
Place Published: South Bend, Indiana
Publisher:J. B. Stoll
Date Published: 1894
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146, xvi pp. Illustrated with drawings by O. Marion Elbel. 22.2x14.5 cm (8¾x5¾"), original gilt-lettered brown cloth, decoratively bordered in black. First Edition.
Setting out from South Bend, Indiana, on January 22, 1849, Leeper and his party of six crossed the plains and entered California via the Lassen Cutoff. Kurutz notes that "Leeper provides an excellent description of Sutter's Fort and mining activities at Hangtown Creek, Kelsey's Canyon and the Trinity Diggings." He returned east via Nicaragua in April and May of 1854. Some copies have a tipped-in errata slip, while others, as described by Kurutz, the errata is printed on the copyright page; this copy has both. Cowan p. 388; Graff 2447; Howes L226; Jones 1671; Kurutz 296; Mintz 289; Rocq 15912; Streeter 3199; Wheat Books 124.
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