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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Octavius T Howe |
| OCLC Number: | 166503741 |
| Notes: | "List of mining companies from Massachusetts going to California in 1849, date of starting and arrival ...": Appendix, p. 187-213. Bound in 1/2 paper over boards and blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine and woodcut illustrated book jacket. |
| Description: | 4 p. l., 3-221 p., [8] leaves of plates : front., ill. : 25 cm. |
| Contents: | The overland routes to California -- The route around the Horn -- San Francisco and the gild fields -- Recapitulation and general conclusions. |
| Other Titles: | Emigrant companies from Massachusetts. |
| Responsibility: | by Octavius Thorndike Howe. |
Abstract:
The story of the companies of adventurers leaving Massachusetts for California by various ships around the horn, and some by land, their trials by bad weather, heavy seas, and by hostile Indians. Nine illustrations - eight of ships.
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