FEATURING AN ORIGINAL DRAWING OF A CALIFORNIA FRONTIER CAMP (CALIFORNIA.) Thénot, Jean Pierre. Practical Perspective, for the Use of Students. 35 plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth gilt, unevenly sunned; dampstained; full-page pencil drawing and other doodles on front endpapers and flyleaf; original bookseller's tag of W. & S.B. Ives of Salem, MA on front pastedown. New York, 1838
The full-page drawing is titled "O.W. Wheler's Camp, Cal., May 22d 1855." It depicts a camp in the woods, likely that of cattle merchant Oliver W. Wheeler (1830-1890). Wheeler was then beginning his career as a roving California merchant who bought up sickly cattle from westward-bound emigrants. In 1867, he would lead the first herd over the Chisholm Trail from Texas to Kansas.
