Life of a Pioneer

Salt Lake City: George Q. Cannon & Sons, 1900. First Edition. 520pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust cloth with the title gilt on the front board and on the backstrip. About very good with gentle rubbing to extremities, more so at corners. Hinges shaken with a few subtle discolorations to boards. James Stephen Brown (1828-1902) was a member of the Mormon Battalion who crossed the west and reached California in 1847. He was with James Marshall when he discovered gold at Sutter's Mill in 1848, which would lead to the California Gold Rush nearly a year later (it took a while for this information to reach and disseminate across the rest of America). Brown was also (truncated) a successful missionary in the South Pacific and one of the early settlers on the Little Colorado and was an early missionary to the Navajo and Hopi.

"Before his death he wrote an interesting sketch of his life which was published in book form under the title 'Life of a Pioneer, being the autobiography of James S. Brown' in which interesting work the details of Bro. Brown's life are depicted in a way calculated to inspire faith and confidence in the great Latter-day work, to which Bro. Brown devoted his life's strength and energy." - Andrew Jenson 'L.D.S. Biographical Encyclopedia.' This highly readable memoir is uncommon. Flake/Draper 900. Graff 426. Howes B849. Kurutz 86. Wheat Gold Rush 22. Clement 148. Eberstadt 104:29. (Inventory #: 10454)