Across the Continen: A Summer's Journey in the Rocky Mountains, the Mormons, and the Pacific States, with Speaker Colfax t by Bowles 1865
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An important account of a summer's journey through the American West undertaken by Samuel Bowles, the publisher of the Springfield Republican and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Schuyler Colfax, Jr., who four years later would become the Vice-President of the U.S. under Ulysses Grant. Little more than a month after the conclusion of the Civil War Bowles and Colfax traveled by rail 1,425 miles from Massachusetts to Missouri "thence a coach ride of two thousand miles before we meet the projecting arm of the California railways at Placerville. They returned to the East via steamship and over land at the isthmus arriving in New York in September, 1865
By Samuel Bowles, Samuel Bowles & Company, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1865,
Folding hand colored frontis map, brown ruled cloth,
Size: 7.75" x 5.25" ,
In good condition. Light wear to extremities with minor scuffing along corners and edges.
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