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J. Smeaton Chase
Yosemite Trails: Camp and Pack-Train in the Yosemite Region of the Sierra Nevada
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$800
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New York, Houghton Mifflin, ca. 1919
8vo. 353 pp. Index. Double-page map. Illustrated with photographs taken by the author. Index. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt and black illustration to front cover; gilt lettering; in uncommon publisher's dust jacket. Minor wear to extremities; light shelfwear; slight darkening to spine; else near fine in dust jacket ("$2.25 stamped over the printed price of $2.00 on dust jacket spine; foxing to covers; minor wear to extremities.
The first title in the author's "trilogy of trails" books celebrating the California's wild landscapes through his horseback journeys. J. Smeaton Chase (1864 – 1923) was an English-born American author, a scholarly amateur naturalist and adventurer. In "Yosemite Trails", Chase focuses on the beautiful Sierra Nevada's Yosemite backcountry, where he rode for months detailing campsites, trails, and high-country vistas. Uncommon in dust jacket.
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