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Title: Experiences of a Forty-Niner, by...a Member of the Wagon Train First to Enter California in the Memorable Year 1849 Author: Johnston, W[illia]m G[raham] Place: Pittsburgh Publisher: [Privately printed] Date: 1892 Description: 390 pp. Illustrated with 14 plates including portrait, engravings, etc. 8¾x5¾, original green cloth stamped in gilt, beveled edges, floral endpapers, hinges reinforced. First Edition. Presentation slip from Johnston to Col. E.J. Unger laid in. "Overland narrative, in diary form, of the first emigrant train entering California in 1849" - Howes, who also notes the occasional presence of a folding facsimile map, "issued later," which is not in this copy. Presumably one of only 50 copies for private distribution, which Kurutz notes: "After publication Johnston mailed a blueprint map and a portrait of himself asking the owners to tip the additions into the volume. Apparently, not everyone complied, as many copies lack the map and the portrait." Kurutz 364a; Howes J173; Cowan p.316; Graff 2229; Wheat Gold Rush 113. Lot Amendments Condition: Some light wear and spotting to cloth; else very good. Item number: 193558