The City of Saints, And Across The Rocky Mountains To California.

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First U.S. edition. Tall 8vo., orig. brown cloth, (xii), (4), (1)-574, (2)pp.ads. With engraved plates (8 and a frontis), folding sheet with three maps, and several engravings in the text. Library stamp on the plates (no other library markings), bookplate, some scattered foxing, wear to the head and foot of spine, small piece of cloth 1/2" in diameter missing from upper board but this is still a better than very good but not near fine copy. Howes B1033, cf. Sabin 9497, Wagner-Camp 370:2. An account of Burton's journey across the United States to Salt Lake City and thence to California, in the late summer and early fall of 1860. Burton details his visit to Salt Lake City and describes the overland journey, the Mormons, polygamy, etc. "Sir Richard departed from Saint Joseph on August 7, 1860, and arrived at Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendix of the book contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology; and the footnotes (pp. 250-63) include an extensive Mormon bibliography" (Wagner-Camp). The five appendices include a detailed itinerary of his route, transcriptions of various Mormon documents, and a chronological abstract of Mormon history. N° de ref. del artículo 32372

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