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Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313567175ISBN 13: 9781313567176
Seller: PBShop.store US, Wood Dale, IL, U.S.A.
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313567175ISBN 13: 9781313567176
Seller: THE SAINT BOOKSTORE, Southport, United Kingdom
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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.
Published by Hardpress Publishing, 2013
ISBN 10: 1313567175ISBN 13: 9781313567176
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
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PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
Published by San Francisco: J. M. Hutchings & Co., 1862., 1862
Seller: Arader Galleries - AraderNYC, New York, NY, U.S.A.
8vo., (9 1/8 x 6 inches). With 105 wood-engravings throughout, some full page, by Thomas Armstrong, after drawings by the Nahl brothers, Harrison Eastman, and others and originally published in Hutchings's "California Magazine" (browned throughout). Publisher's presentation binding of red morocco gilt extra (extremities rubbed). Provenance: with the ownership inscription of Diego L. de Quintana on the verso of the front free endpaper. Second edition, first published in 1861 (of "the Mammoth Trees of Calaveras; the Caves and Natural Bridges of Calaveras; the Yo-Semite Valley; the Mammoth Trees of Mariposa and Frezno."), pagination beginning on page [1], and the seasickness scene on page 184 present in all its glory. Hutchings emigrated to the United States in 1848, and then "headed to California in 1849 during the Gold Rush. He became wealthy as a miner, then lost his fortune when his bank failed. He turned to publishing and tourism and regained his wealth. In 1855 Hutchings led the first tourist party into Yosemite, ultimately becoming one of the first settlers in Yosemite Valley. Hutchings published an illustrated magazine, "Hutchings' California Magazine" that told the world about Yosemite and the Sierra. He was a tireless promoter, of himself and Yosemite. After Yosemite Valley was dedicated as a park in 1864, Hutchings believed he was entitled to retain160 acres in the valley. The courts ruled otherwise. He did, however, get a generous payment from the state to help compensate for his eviction from the valley. Hutchings was an innkeeper for the Calaveras Big Tree Grove Hotel, north of Yosemite. James Hutchings, while visiting Yosemite on October 31, 1902, was killed when his horse reared and threw him from his buggy" (Sierra Nevada Museum online).