[iv], 263, [4] pp. (8vo) 9¼x6¼, original pictorial brown boards backed in brown linen, spine gilt lettered. No. 338 (of 500) copies.

Printed presentation slip mounted on front pastedown. Braly and his family followed the Oregon Trail in 1847, and he led an interesting life all over California. Kurutz: "On July 1 (1849), he settled in Frémont,...With teams of oxen he freighted supplies to Nevada City and Grass Valley... " Formerly in the collections of the Advertising Department of the Union Pacific Railroad Company and the Union Pacific Historical Museum, with a few stamps and notes in ink. Cowan, p. 69; Graff 390