A Pioneer of 1850 George Willis Read 1819-1880; The record of a Journey overland from Independence Missouri to Hangtown Placerville California in the spring of 1850 with a letter from the Diggings in October of the same year and an account of a journey from New York to California via Panama in 1862 capture by the confederate raider Alabama etc. and a visit to the Nevada silver mining district in 1863
192713373Boston: Little Brown & Co 1927. First Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 8.75x6in; xxvi 185 pp. frontispiece of George Read 20 illustrations from various sources bibliography index fold out map of route of Jefferson-California Company; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and publisher's blind stamp on lower front cover top edge trimmed others untrimmed; Minimal shelf wear to edges; Pale blue dust jacket with dark blue lettering on front and spine; Some age toning of edges and darkening of spine chipping of corners and top and bottom of spine larger chip on back lower fore edge price clipped. Kurutz 523 Graff 3431 Cowan64 p.523. George Willis Read 1819-1880 was a Pennsylvania physician that joined an overland company in May 1850 for California. The journal was noted by Wright Howes as "most elaborate of overland journals." from Kurutz. The letters sent home also added detail to the journal and edited by his daughter Georgia Willis Read. Little, Brown & Co unknown books
