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Pioneers to California Gold Rush (5) 1906-64 [182277]

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Pioneers to California Gold Rush (5) 1906-64 [182277]
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A library of five books on the time period from the pioneers to the California Gold Rush. Includes: 1. Legends of the Spanish Southwest. Cleve Hallenbeck and Juanita H. Williams. 1938, The Arthur H. Clark Co. First edition. Illustrations and map. 342 pp. 9.5" x 6.5". Book owner's name hand written inside cover, Fr. Maynard Geiger, OFM. Geiger, Ph.D., was an American Friar Minor and Roman Catholic priest, who was a major historian of the Spanish missions in California founded by the Franciscan Order. His most notable work was a biography of Junípero Serra. Stmped Archivum Provinciae/Old Mission/Santa Barbara, Calif. on second fly leaf page. Minor wear upper spine, otherwise very good. 2. Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850, Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. John W. Audubon, with biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audubon. With folded map portrait and original drawings. 1906, The Arthur H. Clark Co. First edition. Illustrations and map. 249 pp. 9.5" x 6.5". Hinges starting front and back, minor wear upper and lower spine. 3. Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail - 1849 - Diary of Robert Eccleston. George P. Hammond & Edward H. Howes, editors. 1950, Univ. of California Press, Bancroft Library Publications No. 2. Two fold-out maps. 256 pp. 10" x 6.5". Fine. 4. Recollections of a Pioneer. J.W. (Watt) Gibson. 1912, Nelson-Hanne Printing Co. First edition. Extremely rare. Gibson's personal biography of life in northwest Missouri and the westward route to the gold fields, Civil War days and all the drama that extended from the 1850s to the 1890s. 216 pp. 7.75" x 5.5". Small stains first five pages, cover and corner wear, hinges starting, otherwise very good. 5. Over the Santa Fe Trail - 1857. From the original scarce 1905 edition by William B. Napton. 1964, Stagecoach Press. Special Wagonmaster Edition, limited to 99 editions. First-hand account of one man's personal experiences while traveling over the Santa Fe Trail in 1857. 73 pp. Linweave early American paper. Illustrations. Dust cover, fine. [ California