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Horn's Overland Guide to California, 1852 [159043]

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Horn's Overland Guide to California, 1852 [159043]
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Horn's Overland Guide, From the U.S. Indian Sub-Agency, Council Bluffs, on the Missouri River, to the City of Sacramento, in California by Hosea B. Horn. Published by J.H. Colton, 1852. This is the second issue of the first edition with the "opinions of the press" on page 5, and the longer pagination of the main text. This is a landmark guide for pioneers and prospectors published four years after the California gold discoveries. Hosea Horn was an Iowa lawyer who travelled the routes himself and produced this detailed overland guide, the most popular and best known of its day. The text consists of a lengthy list of "Notable Places, Objects and Remarks," and follows the trail in a detailed, step-by-step fashion, with mileage charts, distance between places, etc. The map was executed by Colton and shows the entire central route, with all the cutoffs, marked in red. 83 pages plus advertisements and a large folding map. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Protected in a custom cloth slipcase with gilt leather label. Very fine copy. Slipcase is 4.75 x 6.75 inches.

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