The Diary of Philip Leget Edwards. The Great Cattle Drive from California to Oregon in 1837

Book Description

San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1932 One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. 48pp. One colored facsimile from an 1837 lithograph of San Francisco. Cloth-backed marbled boards, paper labels on spine and front cover. Fore-edges of endpapers with offsetting. Small bookplate on inner cover. A fine copy. Treasurer of the Willamette Cattle Company, Edwards arrived in San Francisco on February 29, 1837. He had originally come to Oregon in 1833 with Captain Wyeth's party. This day-by-day narrative ends on September 18, somewhere near Mt. Shasta, as the company attempts to reach the Willamette Valley with 729 head of cattle. His account of the six months spent in the San Francisco Bay Area is among the most important early descriptions of pastoral California. Also considered one of the first western cattle accounts. [Grabhorn: 172]..

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