MALCOLM FRASER Portrait of the Reverend J W Brier Death Vall

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LEADER OF THE DEATH VALLEY PASSAGE MALCOLM FRASER.
Portrait of the Reverend J. W. Brier, Death Valley. Pen and ink on board illustration for page 39 of "Some Strange Corners of Our Country: The Wonderland of the Southwest" by Charles F. Lummis. New York: The Century Co., 1898. 413x298 mm; 16 1/4x11 3/4 inches, board. Signed and titled in ink, lower right, Century Co. Art Department stamp on verso. Some spotting and light soiling in margins, a few spots and artist's erasure marks in lower portion of image.

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Fraser's striking portrait of the Rev. James Welsh Brier, the leader of one of the first gold rush prospector parties to reach San Francisco, who barely survived the journey through the great desert valley which they later named "Death Valley." The mid-westerners had set out 134 days earlier in the autumn of 1849. In the early 1850s Brier wrote the first printed account of the "Forty-Niners'" trip in the "Christian Advocate," a religious journal published in San Francisco.