From New England to the Pacific. Notes of a Vacation Trip across the Continent in April, May, and June 1884

by John Augustus Spalding

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First edition

First edition. 203pp. 12mo. Original cloth, lettered in gilt. Cowan p. 603 Not in Howes, Decker, Eberstadt, etc. Item #326725 The Raymond Excursion Party of 60 left Boston in April 1884 for an overland tour by train. The author gives descriptions of Chicago, Denver and Colorado mines, the southwest, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Monterey, etc. Spalding worked for the Hartford Evening Post and his thirteen letters

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