Research Catalog

Title

Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail, 1849 : diary of Robert Eccleston / edited by George P. Hammond and Edward H. Howes.

Author

Eccleston, Robert, 1830-1911

Publication

Berkeley ; & Los Angeles : University of California Press, 1950.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Hammond, George P. (George Peter), 1896-1993
• Howes, Edward H., 1920-2012
• Kennedy, Alfred
• Bancroft Library. Friends
• Westgate Press, printer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prt

Description

xvii, 256 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : portrait, color maps; 26 cm

Series Statement

Bancroft Library publications ; no. 2

Uniform Title

Bancroft Library publications ; no. 2.

Subject

• Overland journeys to the Pacific
• Eccleston, Robert, 1830-1911 > Diaries

Genre/Form

Diaries.

Note

• "750 copies printed for the Friends of the Bancroft Library by the Westgate Press, June 1950"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xvii) and index.

Contents

New York to Texas on the Benjamin R. Milam -- From the Gulf to the Nueces River -- The Neuces to the Devils River -- Devils River to the Pecos -- From the Pecos to Wild Rose Pass -- Along the Rio Grande and in the Valley of El Paso -- El Paso to San Diego crossing the Rio Grande -- From the Rio Grande to Apache Pass -- Apache Pass to the Pima Villages on the Gila -- Down the Gila valley -- Rio Colorado to New River and Camp Salvation.

LCCN

50009551

OCLC

• ocm01906985
• 1906985

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries