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  • GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond. by Bond, Marshall Jr.
    Bond, Marshall Jr.
    GOLD HUNTER: The Adventures of Marshall Bond.

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho…

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    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1969). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Marshal Bond, Jr. - who accompanied his father on several of his journeys - tells the story of his father's adventurous life, using his firsthand knowledge as well as his father's diaries and letters. Bond (1867-1941) drove cattle in Texas, went to the Klondike to search for gold, where he became friends with Jack London (the dog in Call of the Wild is based on Bond's dog) and from there to the deserts of the Southwest and to Mexico City. He boated the Colorado River, lived in a shack in Goldfield Nevada, where he reported on the gold rush there, found himself in the middle of Pancho Villa's fighting in Mexico in 1918, traveled the length of Africa and finally in the 1930s to the gold rush in the Mohave in California. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with photographs. Index. x, 258 pp.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87323
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  • STEAM LAUNDRY. by O'Donnell, Nicole Stellon
    O'Donnell, Nicole Stellon
    STEAM LAUNDRY.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback.

    Los Angeles: Boreal Books / Red Hen Press, (2012). First edition - A "novel in poems based on the true story of Sarah Ellen Gibson, a miner's wife during the Klondike and Alaska gold rushes. Her journey began as she followed her husband to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1898. She stayed there three years as the town's boom and her marriage burned out. In 1903, she left her husband and sons to start over in Fairbanks, Alaska, with another man. Based on archival research and incorporating historical documents and photographs, the poems approach the past through the ghosts of correspondence." Illustrated with photographs. Notes. 143 pp. ISBN: 978-1597092289.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 70474
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  • Phillips, R. A. J.
    CANADA'S RAILWAYS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Toronto: McGraw-Hill, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Comprehensive history of Canada's railroads, including how they were built and a discussion of their importance to the growth of Canada. Illustrated with many photographs. 122 pages, index. Uncommon.

    Condition: Ex-library with front endpaper removed, some stamps, in an edgeworn dustjacket.

    Book ID: 13777
    View cart More details Price: $12.50