THE DIARIES OF PETER DECKER: Overland to California in 1849 and Life in the Mines, 1850-1851.; Edited by Helen S. Giffen.
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1966. First edition, 1/100 copies (this#76) signed by the editor. 8vo. 338 pp. Illustrated from wood engravings, frontispiece portrait of Decker, two folding map. Mintz The Trail 120: “Decker’s narrative does not read as smoothly as some other narratives, but more than makes up for this..... More