Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations. Southwest Historical Series, 11. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 74007164 Type of material Book Main title Overland routes to the gold fields, 1859, from contemporary diaries. Edited by LeRoy R. Hafen. Published/Created Philadelphia, Porcupine Press, 1974. Description 320 p. illus. 24 cm. ISBN 0879913053 LC classification F786. S752 vol. 11 F593 Related names Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben), 1893-1985. Contents Introduction. --The Arkansas River route, diary of C. C. Post. --The Platte River route, diary of E. H. N. Patterson. --St. Joseph to Fort Kearny, diary of E. R. Pease. --From Texas to Pike's Peak, diary of A. M. Gass. --Leavenworth and Pike's Peak express route, journal of A. D. Richardson. --The Smoky Hill Trail, contemporary letters and reports. --Appendices: E. D. Boyd's notes on the first parallel road. Log of R. F. Burton's stagecoach trip. Report of J. H. Edwards. Letters from travelers on the Arkansas River Trail. LC Subjects Overland journeys to the Pacific. Gold mines and mining--West (U.S. ) American diaries. West (U.S. )--Description and travel. Notes Reprint of the 1942 ed. published by A. H. Clark Co., Glendale, Calif. Series The Southwest historical series, 11 Dewey class no. 917.9/03/2 s 917.8 Geographic area code n-usp--
