MANLY, William L.

Death Valley in '49. Important Chapter of California Pioneer History..

Item #718

(CALIFORNIA). MANLY, William L. Death Valley in '49. Important Chapter of California Pioneer History.... San Jose, 1894. 1st ed. Illus. with a frontis. and three plates (complete). 498pp. Orig. decorated cloth. Very good copy. Howes M-255. "Classic account, by a survivor, of dire sufferings endured by an emigrant party on a short-cut from Salt Lake to California through the Valley called ever after by this fearful name." "No other book that has ever been written about Death Valley can even remotely approach the Manly in historic importance. It is unlikely that one ever will..." Graff 2670.

Price: $750.00