Adventurers and Prophets: American Autobiographers in Mexican California, 1828-1847.
first edition
1995 · Spokane
by Churchill, Charles B.
Spokane: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1995 First edition. Limitation not noted. 278pp. Illustrations, portraits. Red cloth, gilt. A very fine copy. The author worked from the autobiographical writings of influential and legendary pioneers to California including Kit Carson, Richard Henry Dana, William Heath Davis, James Ohio Pattie, William Dane Phelps, Alfred Robinson, Henry Augustus Wise, William Henry Thomes, Benjamin Davis Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson Farnham. [Clark and Brunet II: 48].. (Inventory #: 7906)