(TRAVEL) Parkman Francis The California and Oregon Trail

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(TRAVEL.) Parkman, Francis. The California and Oregon Trail. Lithographed frontispiece and half-title. 448, 3-10 pages. 12mo, publisher's bluish-purple cloth, worn, tastefully rebacked and recased with portion of original backstrip laid down; minor foxing; with 5 undated publisher's ad leaves (one to begin the volume and the others at the end). New York, 1849

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first edition in book form, second issue with additional ad leaves. Recounts Parkman's journey from St. Louis across Nebraska to Fort Laramie, WY and his return by the Santa Fé Trail. "No other book contains a more graphic presentation of the panorama of Western migration during this period: the wagon trains met along the way, the emigrant camps, the Indians, the trappers, and the buffalo hunters"--Hubach, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives, page 100. BAL 15446 (binding A); Grolier Hundred 58; Howes P97 ("aa"); Wagner-Camp 170:1a-3.