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Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Custom Clear Mylar. 1957 University of Utah Edition. (vii)168 pages. Sans dust jacket. Folding map of The Mariposa Indian War, showing the campaigns of the Mariposa Battalion, in and around Yosemite. Cloth. 7" x 10 1/4". Many unopened pages. Tipped in frontispiece portrait from photograph of Eccleston.This is the1957 edition by the University of Utah Press. The Utah editions continue the first published diaries of Robert Eccleston, under the title "Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849", distributed to the Friends of the Bancroft Library in 1950. In addition to the diaries, the Utah editions contain the aforementioned map, Dr. Crampton's useful notes and Introduction, a full roster of the Mariposa Battalion, and a bibliography. Eccleston is the only member of the Battalion known to have kept a contemporary record of the War. While pursuing the Indians, the Mariposa Battalion explored the Yosemite valley, the Fresno Big Trees, and the High Sierra between the main forks of the Merced and San Joaquin Rivers. A Fine copy, now in a clear mylar protective sleeve. Kurutz 215. ALWAYS FREE SHIPPING of our books in boxes, via media mail, to any United States address.
Published by University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1957
Seller: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. [8], vii, 168 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations, map. Series: Bancroft Library publications ; no. 6. Publisher's terracotta colored boards fresh, corners sharp; previous owner's signature at front free endpaper, contents fine, folding map as new. One of 500 copies. 750 grams.