Pioneers of the Sacramento: A Group of Letters by & About Johann Augustus Sutter, James W. Marshall & John Bidwell

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1953 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Limited to 400 copies printed by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for the Colt Press. Introduction by Jane Grabhorn. Pp. xii, 34. Illustrated with facsimiles of a broadside and folding map. Cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper spine label. Front board slightly bowed, else A fine copy. Correspondence documenting the early years of the Gold Rush by 3 individuals in the center of events. Includes a color reproduction of a map of the gold region; a reproduction of a broadside containing an account of the discovery of gold; and the text of letters from Sutter to Bidwell, Bidwell to Sutter, Marshall to Bidwell, Sutter to Mrs. Bidwell, and Bidwell to Captain W. F. Swasey. [Grabhorn: 544]. Original prospectus laid in. .