David Spilman Fine Books

Forty-Niners; The Chronicle of the California Trail [with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson]

Hulbert, Archer Butler

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1949. Near Fine in Very Good dust-jacket Second Edition. Centennial issue, [9.5x6.5in]; xviii, 340 pp., many illustrations throughout with maps of sections of the California Trail; Tan cloth cover with green lettering and device on cover and spine; Cream dust jacket with black and red lettering on cover and spine over wrap around graphic illustrations and map of the west and overland trails; Book plate of Everett Lampson on back paste down end paper; Spine on dust jacket darken with age. Item #12984

Archer Butler Hulbert (1873-1933) was historical geographer, author and professor of American History that wrote extensively on American history of the West. The 1931 first edition was very popular, won a cash prize, and republished four times. This revised 1949 Centennial edition includes an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson, literary editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. The book uses diaries and letters of Forty-Niners from Independence to Hangtown [Placerville] to describe a “typical” journey across the plains, mountains and deserts to California. It is a scholarly work that combines events and stories to give the reader a more complete picture of travel to California.

Price: $45.00