Bound for Sacramento
Subtitle: travel-pictures of a returned wanderer
By: translated from the German by Ruth Frey Axe, introduction by Henry R. Wagner.
Contributors: Axe, Ruth Frey.
Publisher: Saunders studio press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Claremont, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Ethnic groups -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; California -- Gold discoveries.; California -- Description and travel.
Description: Carl Meyer was a German-speaking Swiss who traveled to California in 1849. Bound for Sacramento (1938) is the English translation of Nach dem Sacramento, published in the Swiss town of Aarau in 1855. Meyer begins with his 1849 voyage from New Orleans, continuing with tales of the Mariposa and Trinidad gold mines, Stockton, San Francisco, Sacramento, and Mormon Island.
Notes: No known restrictions on publication. No copyright renewal found.
Reproductions of the front and back paper covers and the title-page of the original 1855 edition ([4] p.) inserted between p. [viii] and ix.
"This first edition is limited to 450 copies of which this is copy no. 75."
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