Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker
by GILBERT, Bil
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0806119349
- ISBN 13
- 9780806119342
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. Very Good-. 1985. Softcover. 0806119349 . Bil Gilbert's biography of American mountain man and frontiersman Joseph R. Walker (1798-1876). Walker is credited with blazing the California Trail through northern Nevada and the Sierra Nevada and with organizing the first wagon train to California. With several maps by Michael Serres. --- In wraps with black & white detail from Alfred Jabob Miller's "'Bourgeois' W______r, & His Squaw" to cover. --- With prior owner's signature to first page, sunned spine with reading crease, else a sound, tightly-bound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; viii, (2), 340 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 87159
- Title
- Westering Man: The Life of Joseph Walker
- Author
- GILBERT, Bil
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0806119349
- ISBN 13
- 9780806119342
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Place of Publication
- Norman
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- 0806119349
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir; >>American History & Politics;
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