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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Thus. Text/Strong & sound w/discoloration to pgs 78/79 & 102/103 from acidic reaction to newsprint clippings; soiling to leading text edge. Gilt embossed crimson linen boards/NF w/rubs to edges & trace soiling. DJ/None. Clipping of promotional for book pasted to fEP; PO label to fEP verso. Historian Owen Conchran Coy (1884 - 1952) chroncles the great westward migration that determined the history of California. Text, with maps and illustrations number 11 chapters: I, With the Santa Fe Caravans; II, Along the Oregon Trail; III, The Gold Discovery Arouses the World; IV, Democracy on the March; V, Up the Platte to South Pass; VI. The Humbolt Trail; VII, Across the Desert & Through the Sierra; VIII, Over Southern Plains; IX, The Gila Route; X, The Death Valley Trail; and, XI, Lights & Shadows of the Overland Journey. Franz Geritz (Illustrator) (ilustrador).…