JOHNSON, Overton and William H. WINTER (1819-1879). Route across the Rocky Mountains, with a Description of Oregon and California; their Geographical Features, their Resources, Soil, Climate, Production, &c., &c. Lafayette, Ind.: John B. Semans, 1846. 8 o (204 x 136 mm). (Some foxing and spotting as usual, some pale dampstaining at end.) Original plain brown cloth (inner hinges reinforced); green quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE NARRATIVES OF EARLY OVERLAND TRAVEL" (Cowan), second issue, with the typesetting errors noted by Graff corrected. Johnson and Winter made the 1843 Oregon migration together but parted in Oregon City. Winter traveled on to California. He left California in May 1845, crossed the Sierra Nevada by the Truckee route and, at Soda Springs on the Bear River in southeastern Idaho, met Johnson, who had left Oregon in April. Regarding the description of their travels they write: "It is difficult to form a correct idea of a country from any description that can be given. Men are apt to expect too much--to draw their pictures too fair; they look to those wild and distant regions for something surpassing nature, and they are disappointed. The world contains now no Garden of Eden" (p. iv). Cowan p. 1933; Graff 2221; Howes J-142 ("d"); Mintz 259; Sabin 36260; Streeter V:3145; Wagner-Camp-Becker 122.
JOHNSON, Overton and William H. WINTER (1819-1879). Route across the Rocky Mountains, with a Description of Oregon and California; their Geographical Features, their Resources, Soil, Climate, Production, &c., &c. Lafayette, Ind.: John B. Semans, 1846. 8 o (204 x 136 mm). (Some foxing and spotting as usual, some pale dampstaining at end.) Original plain brown cloth (inner hinges reinforced); green quarter morocco folding case. FIRST EDITION OF "ONE OF THE RAREST OF THE NARRATIVES OF EARLY OVERLAND TRAVEL" (Cowan), second issue, with the typesetting errors noted by Graff corrected. Johnson and Winter made the 1843 Oregon migration together but parted in Oregon City. Winter traveled on to California. He left California in May 1845, crossed the Sierra Nevada by the Truckee route and, at Soda Springs on the Bear River in southeastern Idaho, met Johnson, who had left Oregon in April. Regarding the description of their travels they write: "It is difficult to form a correct idea of a country from any description that can be given. Men are apt to expect too much--to draw their pictures too fair; they look to those wild and distant regions for something surpassing nature, and they are disappointed. The world contains now no Garden of Eden" (p. iv). Cowan p. 1933; Graff 2221; Howes J-142 ("d"); Mintz 259; Sabin 36260; Streeter V:3145; Wagner-Camp-Becker 122.
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