[Foster, Roxana C.]:

$1,500 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE FOSTER FAMILY CALIFORNIA PIONEERS.... Second and best edition of this privately printed book, with the addition of the journal of an 1857 voyage to California via Panama. Contains three journals of overland journeys undertaken by this Illinois family in 1849, 1852, and 1853, including accounts of the early gold mines, ranch life and outlaws, Santa Barbara, San Jose, etc. "One of the scarcest of the latterly published overland narratives...aside from the four overland narratives, there is a wealth of detail about early California pioneer families not to be found in any other work" - Decker.

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