(WEST) Schmidt Carl E A Western Trip

Sale 2287 - Lot 492

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(WEST.) Schmidt, Carl E. A Western Trip. 12 full-page color and 18 smaller black and white photographs mounted as issued. 91 pages. 4to, original pictorial full calf gilt, worn, detached from text block; silk endpapers worn and detached; internally clean and sound, uncut; signed gift inscription from author to William M. Kiley on flyleaf, partial presentation letter laid in. [Detroit: Herold Press, 1904]

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The privately printed memoir of a Detroit tannery magnate who went on a vacation in Yellowstone Park and Utah with his daughter and two friends. The 12 larger photographs are photochromes by the Detroit Publishing Company from negatives by William Henry Jackson, while the smaller photographs were taken by Schmidt's party. The leather for the binding was done at Schmidt's own tannery.
In the 21 December 1904 presentation letter, Schmidt explains that the book is based on a diary he kept on the road: "I compelled some of my friends to work their way through the manuscript. . . . Two of them were indiscreet enough to ask me to have the matter printed and that must be my apology for the book I send you herewith." In addition to the entertaining account of Yellowstone, Schmidt describes a visit to Salt Lake City, where he attends a memorial service for President McKinley at the Tabernacle. The book closes with a long description of the characters at Ophir Mine at Stateline in southwestern Utah, replete with tales of gunfights. Streeter sale VII:4123.