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Greeley, Horace An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859
New York/San Francisco C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co. / H.H. Bancroft & Co. 1860 First Edition Hardcover Near Fine
(rebound in dark green buckram, with paper spine label and gilt lettering on front cover; no dust jacket) [nice-looking copy, fully rebound with new double endpapers; minor shelfwear, light age-toning to page edges, binder's stamp and date "1971" on rear pastedown, pencilled notes regarding 1974 purchase on 1st rear endpaper]. An account of the great newspaper editor's wagon trip from Atchison, Kansas, to San Francisco. (The title is a bit of misnomer, as he devoted only his first chapter, all of 13 pages, to his train trip from New York to Kansas.) He and his party set out from Kansas in May of 1859 and reached San Francisco late in August. He has a great many things to say about all the places along the way, including Kansas itself, the Colorado gold fields, the buffalo, the Indians, the Mormons (in Salt Lake City he spends "Two Hours with Brigham Young" (the title of Chapter XXI), and reports much of their conversation in interview format), and, ultimately, California, to various aspects of which he devotes seven chapters (letters) near the end of the book. In some ways, however, it seems that the whole point of the journey (and the letters, and the book) finally becomes clear in the final chapter, "A Railroad to the Pacific," in which he presents an impassioned pitch for the construction of a transcontinental railroad. The last line of the book, in fact, is: "My long, fatiguing journey was undertaken in the hope that I might do something toward the early construction of the Pacific Railroad; and I trust that it has not been made wholly in vain." [NOTE: the smoothness of the page edges makes me suspect that the pages might have been very slightly trimmed as part of the re-binding procedure, but I don't know this for a fact.]
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