Author: Cummins, Sarah J.
Title: Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins
Description: (Freewater, OR), (M.J. Allen), 1914. Reprint. Paper wrappers. 61 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w photo. 8vo. Printed by the Walla Walla Bulletin. One of four printings issued after the first. "A scarce work privately printed for relatives and friends. The author, an Oregon pioneer, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1828, her parents migrating thither from Oxford, Ohio. She gives a fine account of prairie life on the Illinois. As a young bride of 16 she went overland to Oregon with her husband and father. The party was overtaken by Col. Fremont in the Sioux Country and were escorted part of the way by him. She gives an account of meeting Dr. Whitman on the Powder River, a description of the Grand Ronde Valley, and the peril of being lost for 11 days in the Cascade Mountains, and much other out-of-the-way material of the overland as seen through a woman's eyes," Decker 22:111. Seller ticket pasted in opposite of frontis. Graff 950; Howes C952; Mintz: The Trail 114; Eberstadt 114: 269; Soliday I:365; Decker 22:111. Very good, wrappers chipped & worn along edges and spine, light browning throughout.
Keywords: , Americana, Western Americana, Oregon pioneer, Book
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Title: Autobiography and Reminiscences of Sarah J. Cummins
Description: (Freewater, OR), (M.J. Allen), 1914. Reprint. Paper wrappers. 61 pp. Illus. with 1 b/w photo. 8vo. Printed by the Walla Walla Bulletin. One of four printings issued after the first. "A scarce work privately printed for relatives and friends. The author, an Oregon pioneer, was born in Sangamon County, Illinois, in 1828, her parents migrating thither from Oxford, Ohio. She gives a fine account of prairie life on the Illinois. As a young bride of 16 she went overland to Oregon with her husband and father. The party was overtaken by Col. Fremont in the Sioux Country and were escorted part of the way by him. She gives an account of meeting Dr. Whitman on the Powder River, a description of the Grand Ronde Valley, and the peril of being lost for 11 days in the Cascade Mountains, and much other out-of-the-way material of the overland as seen through a woman's eyes," Decker 22:111. Seller ticket pasted in opposite of frontis. Graff 950; Howes C952; Mintz: The Trail 114; Eberstadt 114: 269; Soliday I:365; Decker 22:111. Very good, wrappers chipped & worn along edges and spine, light browning throughout.
Keywords: , Americana, Western Americana, Oregon pioneer, Book
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 46281
- Book number: 46281
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