The California and Oregon Trail
Being sketches of Prairie and Rocky
Mountain Life
By Francis Parkman, Jr.
Introduction by Edward G. Bourne
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., Copyright 1901
Handy Volume Classic.
Red cloth hardcover with gilt title letters, impressed publisher’s shield in gilt to front cover, top edge dyed red, frontispiece shows b/w photo of Francis Parkman, xix+416pp, 4 x 6 ¼ inches tall.
No dust jacket, front free end paper with previous owner’s signature and date (Grove V. Purchase, 1908), fading/slant to spine, moderate edge wear, small dent to cover edge, lightly tanned pages.
Otherwise unmarked, clean. All pages tight.
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