GREELEY, HORACE.
An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859.
London: Macdonald, 1965. Edited, and with Notes and an Introduction by Charles T. Duncan. Horace Greeley was an editor of the New York Tribune, and the possible originator of the phrase "Go West, young man". "On May 9th, 1859, Greeley set out, carpet-bag and umbrella in hand, to see for himself the vast, fabled and still largely unexplored land. An Overland Journey is the chronicle of this cross-country jaunt to California." Pp.xliv/326/vi(index, portrait frontispiece + map and two facsimile illustrations, maps to endpapers. Black boards, dustwrapper. VG/VG.

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