Alcuin Books, Ltd.

The Road to Virginia City - the Diary of James Knox Polk Miller

Rolle, Andrew F.(editor)

Norman, Oklahoma; (1960): University of Oklahoma Press. First Edition. Octavo. Item #030538

First printing. 143 pp. Published for the first time, the author's account challenges the traditional view of the life beyond the Rockies during th 1860's and provides a badly needed amendment to the notion that the West was pupulated only by outlaws, cowboys and Indians. Miller, only 19 at the time traveled the Overland Trail from St. Joseph, Missouri to Salt Lake City, Montana, in 1864. This is his story. Bound in half tan and half brick cloth, spine lettering white and brown A very good copy in clipped pictorial dust jacket.

Price: $25.00