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[AMERICANA-NATIVE AMERICANS] DELANO, ALONZO. Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the Scenes and Adventures of an O...
Auburn & Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. First Edition but stated "Third Thousand" on title (same imprint and collation as first issue). Publisher's cloth. Original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered and stamped in gilt. 7 1/2 x 5 inches; 384 pp., 4 plates. Old dampstain and foxing, heavy at places, losses to spine tips, embossed collector stamp with ink notation.
"Alonzo Delano ... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." (Wagner-Camp). Cowan, p.163; Graff, 1042; Howes, D230; Kurutz, 177c; Rocq, 6041; Sabin, 19348; Wagner-Camp, 238:1; Wheat Books, 57.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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