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Title: Life on the Plains and among the Diggings; Being the Scenes and Adventures of an Overland Journey to California: with particular Incidents of the Route, Mistakes and Sufferings of the Emigrants, the Indian Tribes, the Present and the Future of the Great West Author: Delano, A[lonzo] Place: Auburn & Buffalo Publisher: Miller, Orton & Mulligan Date: 1854 Description: 384 pp. Illustrated with 4 wood-engraved plates, including frontispiece. (8vo) later three-quarter green morocco and cloth. First Edition, First Issue. "Alonzo Delano... crossed the Missouri River at Saint Joseph in mid-April of 1849 and entered California by way of Lassen's Cutoff, arriving on the Feather River on September 9. He became a well-known and prosperous banker in Grass Valley, where he finally made his home..." - Wagner-Camp. Cowan, p.163; Graff, 1042; Howes, D230; Kurutz, 177; Rocq, 6041; Sabin, 19348; Wagner-Camp, 238:1; Wheat Books, 57. Lot Amendments Condition: Spine sunned, light wear; light foxing; very good. Item number: 250439