Gorley, H. A., [Gorley, Belle, ed.] Selections from the Numerous Letters and Patriotic Speeches of My Husband, H. A. Gorley. San Francisco, Bonnard & Daly, 1876. first edition, octavo, 134 pp., original cloth, binding somewhat worn, rubbed and shaken, inner hinge cracked, else very good. Inscribed by Gorley to A. E. M. Thompson. A rare privately printed volume prepared by Captain Gorley's wife as a 'New Year's Gift' to him, which contains much interesting material on the far West. Particularly valuable are his Notes of a Trip to Northern California and Oregon, undertaken in 1868, which contains good factual descriptions of the early mining communities of Eureka, Gold Bluff, Crescent City, Jacksonville, Yreka, Fort Jones, Weaverville, etc., and Incidents on the March, which describes an overland journey under orders from Major Ferguson, from Camp Wright to the Colorado River and Fort Yuma in the winter of 1862. There is also a long study of the Whitman massacre of 1847. Rare, NUC records three copies only. Decker-Soliday, IV:260, where it is described as scarce, circa 1945; Holliday Sale 438. Not in Cowan; Decker; Eberstadt; Graff; Greenwood; Howell; Howes; Norris; Rocq; Smith; Streeter; Wagner-Camp, Becker. Price: USD 1,500.00 other currencies   order no. 16    inquire

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