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BRYANT, EDWIN. What I Saw in California: Being a Journal of a Tour, by Emirgrant Route and South Pass. [2], 480 pages, with frontispiece woodcut map (Wheat, Gold Regions, 67), and large hand-colored lithographed map by Colton. 12mo, publisher's purple cloth, somewhat faded; scattered foxing, the large map is in good condition but for a very few starting separations at folds. New York: Appleton & Co., 1849
Fifth edition and first to contain Colton's map, which was a popular and important Gold Rush production. The map was largely based on the 1848 Frémont and 1848 Tanner maps, and takes unsubstantiated information about Texas from Emory. For the less desirable 1848 edition of the book see Zamorano Eighty, number 12; for reference to the map, see Zamorano Eighty, number 74. Howes B903.
