Adventurers And Prophets. American Autobiographers In Mexican California 1828-1847

CHARLES B CHURCHILL

Publication: Arthur H Clark Company, 1995, Spokane

Western Frontiersmen Series XXIV. First edition. 8vo. Red cloth, gold stamping on front cover and spine, 278 pp., contents, acknowledgements, introduction, selected bibliography, index. "These personal narratives, combined with social, cultural, political and economic elements, offer an authentic record of early California society. Kit Carson, explorer and mountain man; Richard Henry Dana, seaman; William Heath Davis, Jr., prominent trader who assimilated into the Californio upper class; James Ohio Pattie, fur trapper; William Dane Phelps, ship captain; Alfred Robinson, trader and prominent merchant and sailor; Henry Augustus Wise, U.S. Navy Lieutenant hell-bent on expansion; William Henry Thomes, feckless thrill-seeker; Leonard and Nidever, explorers; Benjamin Davis Wilson, Indian Agent; and Thomas Jefferson Farnham, participant in the Graham Affair, are included." As New without dust jacket, as issued.

Inventory Number: 51371