TRAVELER'S GUIDE ACROSS THE PLAINS - Barbara Holman 1963 - Map &1852 Pamphlet
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TITLE: Travelers' guide across the Plains, upon the overland route to California : showing distances from point to point, accurately measured by roadometer, and describing the springs, streams of water, hills, mountains, camping-places and other notable objects along the route
AUTHOR: P.L. Platt and N. Slater ; reprinted from the 1852 edition and including an introduction by Dale Morgan.
PUBLISHER: San Francisco: John Howell Books; Printed by Barbara Holman
DATE: 1963
EDITION: Reprint of the 1852 edition. Prospectus laid in.
DESCRIPTION: xviii, 59 pages, [1] leaf of plates : facsimile, folded color map ; 24 cm
CONDITION NOTES: Near FINE in acetate jacket. Spine label darkened, else FINE.
BINDING: Orange cloth quarter over black boards lightly decorated in gold stamp.
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Reprint of a 1852 pamphlet distributed in St. Joseph Missouri to pioneer wagon trains plodding westward to California. Amazing that such vague information served settlers in a life or death struggle on such a consequential overland voyage.
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CHAPTERS:
Introduction by historian Dale Morgan --
Original preface --
General directions --
Guide to California --
Summary of distances --
Appendices:
No. I: Containing the route from Fort Leavenworth to its intersection with the St. Joseph Road, a little east of the Big Blue River ;
No. II: Route from Council Bluffs to Fort Laramie along the north side of the Platt [Platte River] ;
no. III: route from the junction of the California and Salt Lake Roads, near the South Pass, to Salt Lake City; and from thence to the junction of the same roads again, northwest of Salt Lake, near the Goose Creek Mountains ;
No. IV: Containing the route by way of Fort Hall, from the point near Bear River where it leaves Sublet's [Sublette's] Cut-off, to its intersection with the Salt Lake Road a few miles east of the Goose Creek Mountains --
New pass through Nevada --
Recommendations [testimonials] of work.
