[vi], 186 pp. Frontispiece photo portrait. 8x5¾, original cloth over thin boards, front cover lettered in gilt. First Edition.

A member of the Hadley party, Crawford started across the plains in April, reaching Oregon in August, 1851. Streeter notes that in addition to the overland narrative, the work "includes an important description of life among the mines during the wild times in the Powder River mines." The book, as noted by Mintz, is "somewhat crudely printed" and similarly bound. Cowan p.149; Graff 911; Howes C870; Smith 2098; Mintz 109; Soliday I, 652; Streeter 3203.