The Journals of Alfred Doten; 1849-190

Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 1973. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Three (3) quarto volume with olive drab cloth boards and illustrated endpapers in olive slipcase; 2381p (in 3 volumes); illustrations; maps; index; 23cm x 26cm x 17cm Overall an about good(+) set of three volumes in a good original slipcase. Exteriors of both the volume and slipcase faded; leaves bright and clean; binding tight; some wear to edges of slipcase and moderate fading/dampstains to boards of all volumes, heads of spines a bit stretched from use. No markings within. . Hardcover. ISBN: 087417032X

Beautifully laid-out and bound, with many photos and reference images that bring these journals to life. One of the most extraordinary firsthand records of nineteenth-century life in the American West. Doten, a New Englander turned Forty-Niner, Doten spent over fifty years chronicling his experiences as a miner, journalist, and observer of frontier society in California and Nevada. His entries—spanning the Gold Rush, the rise and decline of the Comstock Lode, and the maturation of Western towns—offer an unvarnished portrait of ambition, vice, hardship, and the shifting moral landscape of boom-and-bust communities. Edited with scholarly rigor by Clark, the journals are both a monumental work of documentary realism and an inadvertent literary achievement, capturing with granular immediacy the texture of a life lived on the far edge of a transforming nation. | **Heavy item. Additional shipping fees may be needed for expedited, priority, or international orders. Please inquire**458191