The Humboldt; Highroad of the West
New York; (1943): Farrar & Rinehart. Octavo. Item #032080
374 pages, index, bibliography. Illustrated by Arnold Blanch. One of the fine histories of the West and the most hated river for those who had to face it. The Overland Stage, The Overland Telegraph and Pacific Railroad, the Pony Express, and Mormons settling Nevada all the way to Mark Twain who said drinking from it was like "tasting lye and not weak lye either'. The second issue of the first edition retaining the $2.50 price as issued as a "war edition". Bound in gray cloth spine lettering gilt, title blocked in brown, pictorial endpapers, top edge yellow, in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket with wear to spine ends and edges.
Price: $90.00