Route From Liverpool To Great Salt Lake Valley

Illustrated With Steel Engravings And Wood Cuts From Sketches

Made By Frederick Piercy

Including... Together With A Geographical And Historical Description Of Utah And A Map Of The Overland Routes To That Territory From The Missouri River

Copyright 2008. A digital reprint of the 1855 classic mormon text. 120pp. ebook printed in double-columns, including illustrations, plus thirty plates. One of the most important publications devoted to the Mormon emigration, and a landmark in the artistic depiction of western scenes. The plates are after illustrations by Frederick Piercy. "This elaborately prepared and illustrated book was published as a monument to the Mormon emigration to Utah, and as a means of attracting further emigrants. Piercy made a special trip to America [in 1853] to make sketches for the plates, which are some of the best western views of the period" - Streeter. The outstanding views show New Orleans, Natchez, Vicksburg, Nauvoo, Council Bluffs, Laramie, Fort Bridger, and Scott's Bluff. ".One of the most elaborately and beautifully illustrated of western books" - Howes. ".One of the basic sources of illustrated Western Americana of the period" - Taft. "One of the most illuminating maps of the West to appear during 1855.it shows Utah in all its glory. This is not only an important map in the history of Mormons, but is in every sense an important map in the history of the West, giving as it does a carefully drawn picture of that entire area" - Wheat. One of the landmark illustrated books of Western Americana.
Howes L359, "b." Wagner-camp 259. Graff 2501. Flake 6381. Sabin 41325. Streeter Sale 2296. Taft, Artists & Illustrators Of The Old West, P.285. Wheat Transmississippi Iv, Pp.40-41. Crawley & Flake, A Mormon Fifty 46.

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