Digging for Gold Without a Shovel. The Letters of Daniel Wadsworth Coit from Mexico City to San Francisco, 1848-1851

Denver: Old West Publishing Co., 1967 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 1250 copies printed by Lawton and Alfred Kennedy. Introduction by George P. Hammond. Quarto. 116pp. Frontis portrait, 16 plates. Red pictorial cloth stamped in black & gold. A fine copy. An interesting series of letters from Coit to his wife describing Mexico City during the war with the United States, and California during the height of the Gold Rush. Eight of the plates reproduce his realistic sketches of San Francisco and of Benicia. Nine sketches of Mexico in 1848 are also included. [Kurutz: 142]..