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Sumner, Charles A. – A Trip to Pioche – Being a Sketch of Recent Frontier Travel - A printed pamphlet by Bacon & Co. San Francisco, August 17th 1873 of a paper delivered at Dashaway Hall. 13 pp. Advertisements on verso of front wrapper and on both sides of rear wrapper. 8¾x5¾, original printed wrappers. First Edition. "To a San Franciscan of the early 1870's, the "frontier" would be the Nevada wilds east of Virginia City. In the spring of 1873 the author made such a trip, riding on the five-year old rails of the Central Pacific to Palisades, the nearest stage departure for Nevada's southeastern mines. Sumner intimately describes his delightful ride to Pioche - the coach itself, its passengers, some of the stations and their inhabitants, roads and scenery enroute." (Paher). Much discussion on mining operations in Nevada; interestingly George Hearst was one of the passengers. Cowan p.625; Graff, 4031; Paher 1917.
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