Item #4965 Across the Plains and Over the Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith. Randall H. HEWITT.
Across the Plains and Over the Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith
Across the Plains and Over the Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith

Across the Plains and Over the Divide: A Mule Train Journey from East to West in 1862, and Incidents Connected Therewith

New York: Broadway Publishing Co., 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Pp. iii, 521, followed by 12 pages of advertisements. Frontis. portrait photograph with tissue guard. Illustrated with 58 black & white photos and painting reproductions on coated paper and one fold-out map. Bound in blue-gray cloth stamped with red lettering, mounted illustration on front. Top edge dyed brown, others untrimmed. Many leaves uncut. Bookplate of noted Western Americana collector Dr. George William Staempfli on front pastedown; free endpaper excised. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, some lettering worn from spine. Good+. Item #4965

District court clerk and publisher Hewitt stayed in Olympia, Washington from 1862 until moving to Los Angeles in 1876. In 1863 he published Notes by the Way at his Washington Standard newspaper office. This is his greatly expanded version of the migration train that was led by Medorem Crawford. GRAFF, 1875; SMITH, 4393. SOLIDAY I, 1099 ("a well written and detailed account of an overland journey from St. Joseph, Mo., to Olympia, Wash., in 1862 ... [the diary includes] Indian raids, terrible desert crossings, buffaloes, grizzlies, etc. Part of the end of the journey was made on the Columbia River." TWENEY 89, 29. Cover preserved in a clear archival wrap.

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