Across the plains in 1850 / by John Steele; edited with introduction and notes by Joseph Schafer ... illustrations from hitherto unpublished contemporary drawings.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steele, John, 1832-1905.

Contributor:

Schafer, Joseph, 1867-1941, editor.

Lindsay, Andrew Jackson, -1895, illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Overland journeys to the Pacific.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 234 pages, 1 leaf : frontispiece, plates, portrait, folded map. ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Printed for the Caxton club, 1930.

Notes:

"Of this book, designed by William A. Kittredge, three hundred fifty copies have been printed from type at the Lakeside press, R. R. Donnelley & sons company."

"The material reprinted in the present volume was also printed serially in the Lodi Valley news, the initial installment appearing April 8, the concluding one November 18, 1899."--Introd.

"The hitherto unpublished sketches reproduced in this volume were made in 1849, and, on good authority, are attributed to Lieutenant Andrew Jackson Lindsay, of the Mounted rifle regiment, Colonel William Wing Loring commanding."--p. xxxv.

Local Notes:

RBC copy unnumbered.

OCLC:

4965585