1 option
The illustrated miners' hand-book and guide to Pike's Peak, with a new and reliable map, showing all the routes, and the gold regions of Western Kansas and Nebraska...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dechert Collection AC85 P2277 859i
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold mines and mining--Colorado.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Colorado.
- Gold mines and mining--Kansas.
- Gold mines and mining--Nebraska.
- Colorado--Description and travel.
- Pikes Peak (Colo.).
- Nebraska.
- Kansas.
- Physical Description:
- 75 pages : 6 plates, 2 folded maps. ; 16 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Louis : Parker & Huyett, 1859.
- Notes:
- Page [76] and 18 unnumbered leaves following are advertisements.
- Imperfect: Absent in this copy are a folding map of the western railroads and a plate captioned The Renick House to face page 50. This information was supplied by the bookseller E. J. Wessen in a communication to R. Dechert. Complete copies are said to be scarce.
- Publisher's cloth, blind stamped, with title in gilt on upper cover and in blind on lower cover. Title reads: Parker & Huyett's new illustrated miners hand book and guide to Pike's peak.
- U.S.IANA P-82; Graff 3191; Wagner-Camp 339; Hafen, Le Roy, Pike's Peak gold rush guidebooks of 1859, p.261-269.
- OCLC:
- 1658168
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.