Panama and the Sierras: A Doctor's Wander Days
Chicago: Riverton Press, 1950. First Edition. 283pp. Octavo [20 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. Item #9763
Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet: "To C.D. Clark, with compliments of G. Frank Lydston." This work recounts the author's travels through Central America and his recollections of California in the 1860's. Includes descriptions of the Tuolumne River flood of 1861, the mining camps (where the author spent some of his youth), the Chinese, vigilante activities at Yreka in 1894. Contains some material on Joaquin Murieta and Three-Fingered Jack Garcia. Lydston claims his father was a member of a posse that chased Murieta. Not in Cowan. Six Guns 1374.
Price: $50.00