Death Valley in ‘49

Description

Tan cloth, brown spine title, covered wagon illustration on cover, pictorial endpapers. 21×14.5×4.5 cm. Borden Publishing Company. Los Angeles. 1949. xvi, 498 pp. Introduction by Carl I. Wheat. Scattered illustrations, folding map. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some silverfishing and a tape repair to the edges and scuffing to the back cover. A remarkable tale of of an emigrant group stranded in Death Valley, and Manly’s desperate journey to secure relief. weight: 2.1 lb.