LANGWORTHY, Franklin

Scenery of the Plains

Item #38280

LANGWORTHY, Franklin. Scenery of the Plains, Mountains and MInes: or a Diary Kept Upon the Overland Route to California...in 1850, '51, '52, and '53. Ogdensburgh, 1855. 324pp. Original black cloth. Extremities with some wear. Still very good. Howes L-84. Blumann & Thomas 5033. Cowan, p. 383. Mintz 284. Streeter Sale 3179. Hill, p. 471. Graff 2392. Jones 1336. Rader 2201. Flake 4742. Sabin 38904. Wagner-Camp 258. Kurutz 392a. An important overland narrative. "This account is acclaimed by many sources as one of the best written of all overland narratives" - Mintz. Langworthy describes his trip to California via the Platte to Salt Lake, the Humboldt and Carson Valley to Ringgold, and in the second half of the book narrates his views on California life and events in the mines, and his return home via Nicaragua.

Price: $1,000.00