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Gold Rush Diary: Being the Journal of Elilsha Douglass Perkins on the Overland Trail in the Spring and Summer of 1849

Perkins, Elisha Douglass (edited by Thomas D. Clark)

Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967. 1st. Hardcover. Quarto; xxv, 206 pages, Appendix, extensive Bibliography, Index in original goldenrod cloth stamped in brown at spine. Near Fine copy in dust jacket (slight sun fading). Item #9351

"Mattes calls this 'one of the premier daily journals of the California gold rush... rich and revealing in its detail.'"

Price: $40.00