REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL WILLIAM LARIMER AND OF HIS SON WILLIAM H.H. LARIMER TWO OF THE FOUNDERS OF DENVER CITY. COMPILED FROM LETTERS: AND FROM NOTES WRITTEN BY THE LATE WILLIAM H.H. LARIMER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.
[Larimer, William H.H.]
Published by Press of the New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, Pa., 1918
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256pp. plus plates, facsimiles, and folding table. Contemporary three-quarter morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt. Corners bumped, some edge wear, bookplate on front pastedown. Ex-library, with calls numbers (partially erased) on spine, ink stamps on titlepage. Light tanning, otherwise internally clean. Good plus. Printed in a small edition for private circulation by William Larimer Mellon. "General Larimer lost his large fortune in the depression of 1854 and started life anew in Nebraska, leaving his wife and nine children in Pittsburgh. Late in 1855 they joined him in La Platte, a town above Omaha founded by the General. In the fall of 1858, the General, his son W.H.H. Larimer, then not quite 18 years of age, and four others made the overland journey from Leavenworth, Kansas, by way of Bent's Fort to the new gold discoveries at Cherry Creek. Arriving at Cherry Creek on November 17, 1858 the General a few days later founded the Denver City Town Company. The son's narrative tells of these journeys and the founding of Denver by his father and life there until the Civil War. From page 210 to 237 the editor tells from family letters of the Civil War services of the General and his son and of the General's death in 1873. Ordinarily reminiscences are inferior to day by day contemporary accounts, but these are so skillfully edited and so buttressed by contemporary letters and extracts from note books that they form one of the best accounts of an overland journey across the plains and perhaps the best account of the founding of Denver and of life there for the first few years that we have" - Streeter. HOWES L102, "b." STREETER SALE 3094. GRAFF 2400. REESE, BEST OF THE WEST 162 (note). Seller Inventory # WRCAM62903
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Title: REMINISCENCES OF GENERAL WILLIAM LARIMER AND...
Publisher: Press of the New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, Pa.
Publication Date: 1918
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