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Author: BURTON, Richard Francis
Title: The City Of The Saints, And Across The Rocky Mountians To California.
Publisher: London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861. First English Edition.

Notes: Burton's account of his travels in the American west. The narrative begins with Burton's departure by stage coach from Saint Joseph, Missouri on August 7, 1860, and his arrival in the 'Holy City' of Salt Lake on August 25. He remained in Utah for one month, and then continued on the Sacramento and San Francisco, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way.

"Burton was very interested in the Mormons and wrote about them sympathetically. The appendix of the book contains a number of Mormon documents and a Mormon chronology; including an extensive Mormon bibliography." (Wagner-Camp) "The book is a rare account by an experienced traveler who was alert to every detail, to language, to the nuances of a dynamic developing nation that showed high civilization on its eastern coast and progressive barbarism as one traveled westward.

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Condition: Octavo. Pages x, 707; Bound in original publisher's green cloth, with gilt vignette to front board, all titles to spine in gilt. Including numerous illustrations and fold out maps. Collated complete, Penzer 68. Repair to page 1, otherwise a very good copy in the original cloth.

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