The emigrant's guide to Oregon and California : containing scenes and incidents of a party of Oregon emigrants; a description of Oregon; scenes and incidents of a party of California emigrants; and a description of California; with a description of California; with a description of the different routes to those countries; and all necessary information relative to the equipment, supplies, and the method of traveling / by Lansford W. Hastings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hastings, Lansford Warren, 1819-approximately 1870.

Contributor:

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overland journeys to the Pacific.

California--Description and travel.

California.

California--History--To 1846.

History.

Oregon--Description and travel.

Oregon.

Oregon Territory--History.

Oregon Territory.

West (U.S.)--Description and travel.

West (U.S.).

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

152 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cincinnati : Published by George Conclin, 1845.

Notes:

Errata on last page.

Local Notes:

Inserted at the front of this copy, said by the bookseller to have been the Rufus Sage copy, is the map prepared by Sage for his Scenes in the Rocky Mountains (Philadelphia, 1846). This map has been separately catalogued under the name of Sage.

Facsimile printed wrappers.

The information respecting this map and the covers is from Dechert's write-up (typewritten and ms. notes laid in), based on a letter to him from the Eberstadt firm.

Cited in:

Graff, 1815

Cowan (1914), p. 105

Jones, Checklist, 1105

Sabin, 30824

Wagner-Camp, 116

Streeter Cat. V, 3142

OCLC:

63598451