DAYLIGHT LAND. THE EXPERIENCES, INCIDENTS, AND ADVENTURES, HUMOROUS AND OTHERWISE, WHICH BEFELL JUDGE JOHN DOE, TOURIST, OF SAN FRANCISCO; MR. CEPHAS PEPPERELL, CAPITALIST, OF BOSTON; COLONEL GOFFEE, THE MAN FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND DIVERS OTHERS, IN THEIR PARLOR- CAR EXCURSION OVER PRAIRIE AND MOUNTAIN. ALL OF WHICH I SAW, AND ONE OF WHOM I WAS

Boston, 1888. 338pp. plus advertisements. Profusely illustrated. Color lithographed pictorial wrappers bound into ornately gilt publisher's cloth, a.e.g. Slightly rubbed at head and toe of spine, else a fine, very bright copy. A somewhat fictionalized account of an extensive trip through the western regions of Canada by various means in search of small and big game. The protagonists are clearly stereotypes, especially Cephas Pepperell, the Capitalist, who spends most of his time speculating about what could be done to turn virgin wilderness into cash. Though listed in Wright, and the characters being the product of imagination, this work as well draws on the author's extensive personal travels in the West, as outlined in the appended biographical statement. WRIGHT III:3906. (Inventory #: WRCAM58)