Overland Journey To California. Journal Of James Bennett Whose Party Left New Harmony In 1850 And Crossed The Plains And Mountains Until The Golden West Was Reached

JAMES BENNETT

Publication: Edward Eberstadt, 1932, New York

First edition thus. Printed in an edition of 200 copies by Edward Eberstadt from the files of the New Harmony Times wherein the journal appeared serially March 16-August 3, 1906. Stiff printed wrappers, 45 pp., foreword, double column. Mintz 33 says "A colorful report written by a journalist, this was first printed serially in the New Harmony Times. Bennett speaks ominously and often, of the illness and death along the trail. He also gives a good account of the suffering encountered by those following the Humboldt, and of the many dead animals, stating that in the first five miles he counted the carcasses of sixty-four oxen and fifty-five horses." Fine copy.