How Many Miles from St. Jo? The Log of Sterling B.F. Clark, a Forty Niner.

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1929 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First edition. 12mo. 56pp. Illustrations. Cloth backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine, pictorial pastedown on front cover. Slight offsetting to front endpape, else a fine copy. Sterling Clark left Holliday, Pennsylvania in 1849 for Saint Joseph. After stopping in Salt Lake City, he followed the Humboldt-Carson Route into California. He arrived in Sacramento on August 2. Clark washed gold at Mormon Island and Sandwich Island diggings. Supplementing the diary are extracts of letters from Sterling to Rachel Mitchell, his future bride, describing life in California and urging her to come. He went back home to marry but died on the way back to California at the age of twenty-eight. His daughter was born posthumously. Includes comments by the author's daughter, Ella Sterling Mighels, together with a brief autobiography of James Phelan, 1819-1892, pioneer merchant. [Kurutz: 137]..