William Lewis Manly's Death Valley in 1849 published by The Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, 1927. Hardcover. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife: Secretary and Editor of the Burton Historical Collection. Includes frontis piece and map. 307 pages. William Lewis Manly was an American pioneer of the mid-nineteenth century. He was first a fur hunter, a guide of Westward bound caravans, a seeker of gold, then a farmer and writer in his later years. He wrote his own autobiography, first published with the title From Vermont to California, then a second edition with the title Death Valley in '49, that tells of the Pioneer conquest of America's Far West, in particular the 1848 California Gold Rush. FREE DOMESTIC SHIPPING.

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