Sharp James Meikle (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering, 72 pages, 2 photos, binding sunned at edges and spine, rubbing mainly at spine. Mintz 418, "An account of an 1852 overland trip to Oregon." Howes S332, One of the rarer overland narratives, dictated late in life by the author. "This is the migration record of a respectable but poor family that had to sacrifice and borrow to get their outfit together and were near starvation in Oregon." The narrative also gives a brief account of the author's later life in Lane County, Oregon, and Ventura County, California, where he eventually prospered as a citrus fruit grower and banker." Mattes 1279.