Miles Goodyear: First Citizen of Utah Trader, Trapper and California Pioneer (INSCRIBED)

Published by Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, Salt Lake City, 1937

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Full-page gift inscription by author, Maurice Howe, with his thoughts about pioneers on the following page. 8vo. 152, [7] pp. Bibliography; Index; 9 photo-illustrated plates. 4 page prospectus laid in. Green cloth with gilt lettering in green printed dustjacket. Fading to spine; ligth wear to extremities; else a near fine copy. Miles Morris Goodyear (1817-1849) was an American fur trader and mountain man who built and occupied Fort Buenaventura in what is now the city of Ogden, Utah. A cabin built there by Goodyear, as far as known, is the first permanent house built in Utah. Goodyear eventually moved to California and engaged in horse-trading and gold mining. He acquired land at Benicia and made a gold discovery on the Yuba River at "Goodyear's Bar." - wiki. (Howes K56). First Edition Limited to 350 copies, this being No. 272.

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Title
Miles Goodyear: First Citizen of Utah Trader, Trapper and California Pioneer (INSCRIBED)
Author
Kelly, Charles and Maurice L. Howe
Publisher
Privately printed for the authors by Western Printing Company, Salt Lake City
Publication year
1937
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