The Stormy Life of Major Wm. Gouverneur Morris in California and Alaska

San Francisco: The California Historical Society, 1993 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author. One of 500 copies produced by the Arthur H. Clark Company. Foreword by Richard Dillon. 137pp. Frontis portrait, 11 illustrations; notes, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. Morris arrived in California in 1855 and played an active role in California government and politics for 20 years, before getting an important administrative appointment in 1874 in Alaska..