WEBSTER, Kimball; George Waldo Browne, introd; Frank Holland, et al, illus

The Gold Seekers of '49. A Personal Narrative of the Overland Trail and Adventures in California and Oregon from 1849 to 1854

Manchester, NH: Standard Book Company, 1917. First Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover with gilt spine-titles; 240pp; frontispiece and fifteen leaves of unnumbered plates (halftones). Trace of rubbing to board edges; gentle fading to spine; Near Fine. Variant (possibly remainder) binding, without the printed cover onlay called for by Graff.

Born in New Hampshire, Webster made his way to California in 1849, founding the Granite State and California Mining and Trading Company which was later absorbed into Jacob Thing's "Boston Pack Company." WHEAT (Gold Rush) 222. GRAFF 4571.

Price: $100.00

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