The Forty-Niners in Death Valley (A Tentative Census)

San Francisco: Carl I. Wheat, 1939 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First separate edition, first published in the Quarterly of the Historical Society of Southern California, December, 1939. 16pp. Notes. Printed wrappers. Wraps splitting at top and bottom of spine, minor shelfwear, else a near fine copy. Wheat provides the names, place, birth and death dates, etc. of members of The Jayhawker Party; The Brier Party; The Bennett-Arcan Party; The Mississippi Boys; The Georgians; The Coker Party; and the so-called "Savage-Pinney Party," along with notes, miscellaneous information, and sources. [Edwards, The Valley Whose Name is Death: p.102]..