Scenes of Earlier Days in Crossing the Plains to Oregon, and Experiences of Western Life

Petaluma, California: J. T. Studdert, Book and Job Printer, 1898 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. [6], 186pp. Photographic frontis portrait, plates. Black cloth over stiff cloth boards, gilt-lettered spine. Light wear to lower corners, some spotting to front cover. Early owner's name in pencil on flyleaf. A near fine copy. Memoirs of a minister who, in 1851, traveled from Illinois to Oregon, where he settled in Portland. His subsequent travels took him to California: San Francisco, Stockton (where he built a church), Santa Rosa, etc. From California, he recounts his adventures to and at the Powder River mines in Eastern Oregon as a prospector and miner. [Cowan: p.149; Graff: 911; Howes I: C-870; Howes II: C-874; Smith: 2098]..