Hannum, Anna Paschall & John Bach McMaster (eds.).
A Quaker Forty-niner. The Adventures of Charles Edward Pancoast on the American Frontier.
Philadelphia; University of Pennsylvania Press: 1930. Pancoast's reminiscences of his life on the Western frontier. He left Philadelphia in 1840 for St. Louis where he tried and failed to establish a drug business. He then became part owner of a steamboat on the Missouri River, but that too eventually ended in disaster, so he joined a party headed for the California goldfields. Tiring of the mining life, he joined with friends to start a ranch which also failed, so... "he returned to Philadelphia richer in experience, but not in pocket, then when he had left it fourteen years before". Hardcover. 6"x9", 402 pages, 13 b/w plates; light wear to the covers; slightly shaken; text a little browned.
$40.00
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