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MARCY, RANDOLPH B. The Prairie Traveler. A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions. Folding map, engraved plates and illustrations. 340 pages. 8vo, publisher's blind-stamped cloth, minor wear; minor age toning throughout; ex-library, with an inked stamp on the title and remnants of a bookplate on the front pastedown (with some loss to the pastepaper). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1859
first edition. "After half a lifetime spent on the western plains and in the Rocky Mountains, Captain Marcy was well qualified to advise the prospective emigrant . . . Marcy set out twenty-eight [routes], including one to the Pike's Peak gold region, which had recently been discovered"--Wagner-Camp 335:1; Graff 2676; Howes M279; Sabin 44514; Streeter Sale 2123.
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