Andrew Davidson Firebaugh & Susan Burgess Firebaugh: California pioneers by Preston, Brenda Burnett (1995) Hardcover - Hardcover
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Andrew Davidson Firebaugh & Susan Burgess Firebaugh: California Pioneers by Preston, Brenda Burnett (1995) Hardcover
Seller: Salish Sea Books, Bellingham, WA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; The textblock edges are unblemished; Tiny crease to the top right edge-corner of about 100 pages, otherwise the endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 0.9 lbs; Yellow and black dust jacket with title in red lettering; 1995, Rio Del Mar Press; 335 pages; "Andrew Davidson Firebaugh & Susan Burgess Firebaugh: California Pioneers by Preston, Brenda Burnett (1995) Hardcover," by Brenda Burnett Preston. Seller Inventory # SKU-0684AB06504196
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Seller: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, U.S.A.
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Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Later Printing. California Pioneers, Andrew Davidson and Susan Bugress Firebaugh. This is a new book, un date c . Friebaugh owned a ferry, was general contracter for the first road over the Pacheo Pass that was not an indian trail, moved all around the central valley. 1850's California was not a place for the faint of heart. Joquin Murrieta, Three Fingered Jack, mexican laborers, land and water battles with Henry Miller the cattle king. Loss of an only son this is their story as told by a descendant. Their names lives on today in the town of Firebaugh in Californias central valley. Book. Seller Inventory # 000328
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Seller: Phoenix Books/Joanne's Used Books, Los Banos, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated. Andrew Davidson and Susan Bugress Firebaugh. Preston, Brenda B. Signed Rio Del Mar Press, unstated ed., 1995, 335 pages, ISBN: 096457546 Hardback in good+ condition, Dust jacket good+. Text clean and unmarked, binding tight, inscription inside cover from author, Cloth cover is very clean, dust jacket show little if any signs of wear. Born in Virginia he was to move to Texas and later California. Firebaugh has been documented in California as early as 1846 but he could have driven cattle into the state earlier from Texas. Once in the Great Central Valley he started a Ferry and later was the main contractor of the Pacheco Pass road. Always a wheeler-dealer in had many run ins with Henry Miller the great cattle king. Joaquin Murrieta, Henry Miller, Three Fingered Jack, Las Juntas life was fast and cheap in 1850's. The town of Firebaugh in the Califonira Great Central Valley is named in their honor. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 000960