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[6], vi, [4], 224 pp. Folding map. 6¾x5, original red cloth lettered in gilt. No. 172 of 200 copies. First Edition.

Scarce account of the Colorado Gold Rush, recounting in day-by-day form the trip from Atchison via the Little Blue and Platte to Julesburg and thence down the South Platte to Denver in 1865. Young's train made the journey in 43 days. Laid in is a printed slip denoting this as a companion volume to Young's "Echoes from Arcadia," published two years earlier. Graff 4787; Howes Y25; Mintz 627. With the label of Wright Howes on rear endpaper, previous owner's leather label on front endpaper.