Bowles, Samuel.

Across the Continent. A Summer's Journey To the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, With Speaker Colfax.

Springfield, Mass. & New York: Samuel Bowles & Company & Hurd & Houghton, 1866. Hardcover. Item #30500

7.5" x 4.5". 452pp., plus ads. Brown cloth with gilt spine lettering. Spine faded and a bit soiled and some light edge wear; generally else VG+ condition. With the color folding map of the (now) western United States tipped in opposite the title page. The map has a two inch closed tear. With good detail on travelling in the American west, Mormons, Oregon and California and Washington, Yosemite, the Chinese laborers, mining, the voyage home by steamship, etc. See Sabin, 7077; Flake, 767; Wagner-Camp, 410.

Price: $75.00