Idol of the West. The Fabulous Career of Rollin Mallory Daggett.

Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1965 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. Pp. ix [1] 220. 11 illustrations. Chapter notes, bibliography, index. Light tan cloth, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Half-inch closed tear to top front edge of jacket. First edition. Biography of an amazing career. Rollin Mallory Dagget came to California in 1850, was founder of the Golden Era, off to the Comstock Lode of Nevada, on the staff of the Territorial Enterprise, friend of Mark Twain, lone Congressman from Nevada from 1879 to 1881, and finally, American minister to the Hawaiian Islands for three years prior to annexation. .