2 vols. xviii, 142, [6]; xviii, 143, [6] pp. Illustrated with chapter headings from pictorial lettersheets. 8¾x5¾, original quarter cloth and boards, paper spine labels. One of 500 copies.

Handsome Grabhorn edition of this important account of life in the gold mining region of the Feather River, California, in the early 1850s. Originally published in a series of articles in the Pioneer Magazine and first published in book form in 1922. Introduction and notes by Carl I. Wheat. No. 5, Grabhorn Press Rare Americana Series.