CALIFORNIA: A BOOK FOR TRAVELERS AND SETTLERS BY CHARLES NORDHOFF, 1878

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CALIFORNIA: A BOOK FOR TRAVELERS AND SETTLERS BY CHARLES NORDHOFF, PRINTED IN 1878
CONDITION: The “front cover” has come loose. The “book spine” is 95% gone. Interior pages are in mostly good condition.
EXTREMELY RARE BOOK. GREAT SOURCE FOR EARLY CALIFORNIA RESEARCH PROJECTS.
This edition was printed in 1878. 255 pages. 26 chapters. 57 hand-drawn illustrations. A wonderful, first-hand look into early California. Chapters on “the way over, sights along the way, central pacific railroad, tourism (what to see and how to see it), great sights and hints to travelers, “John”, gold mining, southern California for invalids, the agricultural wealth of California, agricultural land and hints to settlers, a January day in Los Angeles, farming in San Bernardino, an old California Rancho, Indians as laborers, coastal counties in February, semi-tropical fruits in California, Anaheim a successful colony with hints for other colonists, wheat farming in the Joaquin Valley, the Chinese as railroad builders, a great stock-farmer, the Tulare Lake (no longer exists), farms for the millions, co-operative farming, how irrigating ditches are made, beets, sugar, silk, etc., wire growing in California; dome estimates of cost, raisins, a golden valley, sheep farming; with a night around the campfire, a California cattle rancho, a rodeo, peculiar customs of Spanish Californians.
Note: the “front cover” has come loose. The “book spine” is 95% gone. The “interior pages” are still in mostly good condition. SEE PICTURES. The book is 143 years old and will provide the new owner with hours of “glued to the page” reading. The seller has provided a picture of a
green first edition
copy printed in 1872, showing a sample of an original cover and spine. The book being sold cover and spine might be able to be repaired by an expert book binding company.
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