Item #13192 Filings From an Old Saw; Reminiscences of San Francisco and California’s Conquest [from articles in the San Francisco newspaper, The Golden Era, January to July 1853]. Joseph T. Downey, Ed. Fred Blackburn Rogers.
Filings From an Old Saw; Reminiscences of San Francisco and California’s Conquest [from articles in the San Francisco newspaper, The Golden Era, January to July 1853]

Filings From an Old Saw; Reminiscences of San Francisco and California’s Conquest [from articles in the San Francisco newspaper, The Golden Era, January to July 1853]

San Francisco: John Howell, 1956. Near Fine. First Edition. Lawton Kenndy, Designer. limited to 750 [6.5x9.5”]; Green cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, light blue illustration of sailing ship on front, fore edge untrimmed; [2], vi, [1], 170 pp., [2], frontispiece illustration of Robert Field Stockton [prominent in articles], eighteen articles from January 9 to July 3, 1853, appendix on authorship, notes, index; Minimal shelf wear. Item #13192

From the preface, The Golden Era newspaper was short lived from December 19, 1852 to July 3, 1853. This book is a series of 18 articles printed during the period of January 9 to July 3, 1853 on the beginning of the American conquest of California of 1845-1847. The author of the articles signed as “Filings”, which the editor, Potter, suggest evidence as Joseph Downey, who disappeared after 1853. The articles appear to have been written by or related from persons directly sharing the experiences in the articles. Stockton is prominent in the articles and there are other well known persons, Fremont, Kearny, Montgomery, Carson and Brannan.

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