Carrie Adell Strahorn / Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage SIGNED 1st Edition 1911

Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage (SIGNED). Author: Strahorn, Carrie Adell Title: Fifteen Thousand Miles By Stage (SIGNED) Publication: New York & London: G.

Putnams' Sons, 1911 Edition: First Edition. Full page INSCRIPTION Royal 8vo. Frontispiece portrait and 350 illustrations from photographs and drawings 85 by Charles M.

Russell, including four color plates with titled tissue guards. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering; top edge gilt; Chrales Russell illustrated plate affixed to front board; illustrated endpapers. Wear to extremities; shelfwear with corners & spine end just starting to show through; else a near fine copy. As a newly married woman, Carrie, along with her husband, Robert Strahorn, traveled by stage coach and horse back through Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Montana, Washington state, and Oregon in the 1870s, documenting conditions for potential railroads. Fellow passengers were story tellers, singers of broody songs, children with whooping cough a few woman mostly men going west to find fortunes in gold or commerce.

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