William l manly (18 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A survivor's true account of death, despair, and heroism in Death Valley in the heat of the California Gold Rush. At the height of the California gold rush in 1849, a wagon train of men, women, children, and their animals stumbled into a 130-mile-long valley in the Mojave Desert while they were looking for a shortcut to the California coast. What ensued was an ordeal that divided the camp into remnants and struck them with hunger, thirst, and a terrible sense of being lost beyond hope--until a twenty-nine-year-old hero volunteered to cross the desert to get help. This young hero, William Lewis Manly, was one of the survivors of the tragedy, and he lived to tell the tale forty-five years later in this gripping autobiography, first published in 1894. In a time of unmarked frontiers and wilderness, Manly lived the true life of a pioneer. After being hit by gold rush fever Manly joined the fateful wagon train that would get swallowed up by the barren, arid, hostile valley with its dry and waterless terrain, unearthly surface of white salts, and overwhelming heat. Assaulted and devastated by the elements, members of the camp killed their emaciated oxen for food, ran out of water, split up, and lost and buried their own kind who perished. When Manly's remaining band of ten came across a rare water hole, he and a companion, John Rogers, left the rest by the water and crossed the treacherous Panamint Mountains and Mojave Desert by themselves in search for rescue. In a true act of heroism against all odds, the two finally returned twenty-five days later with help, rescuing their compatriots, including four children, even when it seemed all hope was lost. Told at the end of the nineteenth century, Manly's compelling and stirring account brings alive to modern-day readers the unimaginable hardships of America's brave pioneers, and a chapter in Californian history that should not be forgotten.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 210 pages. 9.90x6.90x0.90 inches. In Stock. Burton, David; McCluskey, Gary; Carney, William L. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st editon. 168pp, octavo, hc w/jacket in mylar, b/w ill., fold-out map, tight binding, clean throughout, clean boards with light edge wear, jacket has a 1" open tear on top of back cover and is mildly soiled.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. NY & Santa Barbara, Wallace Hebberd (1929) . 524 pages, clothbound, no jacket, very good condition. Reprint of Howes M-255.

weight: 0.8 lb. Very good, moderate shelfwear. Edited by Milo Milton Quaife. Lithograph frontis, folding map. 17.5x10.5 cm. xv, 307 pp. Blue cloth, gilt spine title, gilt ruled border, top edge gilt.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, small octavo, 307 pp. Minor edge-wear and rubbing to boards and spine. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, small octavo, 307 pp. Minor edge-wear and rubbing to boards and spine. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, small octavo, 307 pp. Minor edge-wear and rubbing to boards and spine. Previous owner plate to fpd. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, small octavo, 307 pp. Minor edge-wear and rubbing to boards and spine. A bit of soiling to boards. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, small octavo, 307 pp. Minor edge-wear and rubbing to boards and spine. some soiling to boards. Internally, quite sound. Overall, very good.

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus Hardcover. Dark green cloth, 16mo, 307 pp, with frontispiece and foldout map. T.e.g. (very bright). Very slight scuffing to boards, bumping to corners. Previous owner's name on ffep and blank. Text is clean and tight. An extremely bright copy. Howes M 255.…

hardcover. Zustand: Used-Very Good. First Edition Thus. Cloth, no dj. Small 8vo. Dark green cloth boards with gilt decorations, title. Top edge gilt. xxii, 307 pp. Heavy wear to boards, with chipping and fraying at extremities. Expected age-toning to text block, and some foxing to endpapers; otherwise internals clean. …

Folding map, frontis, 7 x 4.5, gilt decorated green cloth, teg, covers worn, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, old adhesive residue on front cover, contents toned, a rather used copy.

Folding map, frontis, 7 x 4.5, gilt decorated green cloth, teg, covers worn, extremities bumped and fraying, hinges loose, spine a little cocked, contents toned, a rather used copy.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece and fold-out map. William Lewis Manly (1820-1903) was an American pioneer of the mid-19th century. He was first a fur hunter, a guide of Westward bound caravans, a seeker of gold and then a farmer and writer in his later years. He wrote an autobiography, first published with the title "From Vermont to California," then a second edition with the title "Death Valley in '49," which tells of the pioneer experience in America's Far West, in particular the 1848 California Gold Rush. In December 1848, at age 29, Manly traversed California's Death Valley (today the centerpiece of Death Valley National Park) as a member of a group of emigrant pioneers traveling overland from Salt Lake City, Utah to the California gold rush (the Death Valley '49ers). These pioneers became lost in the Great Basin Desert, and entered Death Valley, having followed an inaccurate map for three weeks. Their food supplies were almost exhausted, and the oxen pulling their wagons were dying of starvation. Manly, with his associate John Haney Rogers, trekked 250 miles on foot across the Mojave Desert to Rancho San Fernando near Los Angeles, California, to scout an evacuation route for the families trapped in Death Valley, and procure food and horses if a settlement could be located. . The volume shows only the slightest shelf-wear, else pristine, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 25. Frontispiece and Map. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxiii, 307 pp.…

Hard Cover. Zustand: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g., fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with tissue-protected frontispiece and fold-out map. Former owner's signature stamp on ffep, otherwise unmarked; gilt bright, boards clean, corners sharp, text block tight, and square. NEAR FINE. . The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 25. B&W Illustrations. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. xxiii, 307 pp.…

Hardcover. First Edition. First edition. (Howes M255) 498 pp. Bound in publisher's mustard cloth, front decorated in black, spine lettered in gilt, original beautiful floral endpapers. Near Fine with some light stains to cloth, slightly bumped and frayed corners. A lovely copy of a vivid account of a difficult journey through California's Death Valley in 1849.…