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Mortality on the wagon train route to California...
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Mortality on the wagon train route to California...

Item # 688251 ·
DAILY NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1852  

* Emigrants travel to California

Page 3 has an article: "Mortality On The Plains" which reports on: "The mortality among emigrants to California by the overland route continues very large..." with some detail.
Also: "Intelligence From California takes over a full column and has subheads; "From the Mining Districts" "Casualties and Crime" "A Slave Case" "The Overland Immigration" "From Southern California" each with various details.
Four pages, archivally rejoined at the spine with some loss at the edge of page 2 affecting only ads, closet-trimmed at the bottom of page 1 affects only ads as well.
Category: Pre-Civil War
Price
$35
100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.