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Way sketches; containing incidents of travel across the plains from St. Joseph to California in 1850 / with Letters describing life and conditions in the gold region, by Lorenzo Sawyer ... with historical notes compiled from rare sources and an introduction by Edward Eberstadt.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection F865 .S27
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sawyer, Lorenzo, 1820-1891.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Overland journeys to the Pacific.
- West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
- West (U.S.).
- California--Gold discoveries.
- California.
- Gold mines and mining.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 125 pages, 1 unnumbered page : portrait ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Across the plains in 1850
- Across the plains in 1850.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : E. Eberstadt, 1926.
- Notes:
- "Edition limited to 385 copies of which thirty-five are on large paper."
- Lettered on cover: Sawyer's journal. Across the plains in 1850.
- First published in the Family visitor of Cleveland. cf. Foreword.
- Bibliographical foot-notes.
- Cover title: Sawyer's journal. Across the plains in 1850.
- Howe S133.
- Local Notes:
- Copy no. 10 of large paper copies.
- Cited in:
- Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed,) S-133
- OCLC:
- 2849843
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