1925]. · [Santa Barbara
by [Foster, Roxana C.]
[Santa Barbara, 1925].. 285pp. Portraits. Publisher's fabrikoid. Spine slightly soiled and worn, corners lightly worn. Small private library stamps on front pastedown and titlepage verso. Light foxing on endpapers and titlepage as well as to edges of text block. Very good. Second and best edition of this privately printed book, with the addition of the journal of an 1857 voyage to California via Panama. Contains three journals of overland journeys undertaken by this Illinois family in 1849, 1852, and 1853, including accounts of the early gold mines, ranch life and outlaws, Santa Barbara, San Jose, etc. "One of the scarcest of the latterly published overland narratives...aside from the four overland narratives, there is a wealth of detail about early California pioneer families not to be found in any other work" - Decker. DECKER 36:156. HOWES F292. ROCQ 14119. KURUTZ 215b. EBERSTADT MODERN OVERLANDS 428. MINTZ 416. COWAN, p.847.
(Inventory #: WRCAM51733)