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Singerman ID#supp0726

Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of the Romantic and Golden Age of the Great West, with a Graphic Account of Its Discovery, Settlement, and Grand Development. Elaborately Illustrated.

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Singerman ID#supp0726

Clampitt, John Wesley. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains: Reminiscences and Thrilling Incidents of the Romantic and Golden Age of the Great West, with a Graphic Account of Its Discovery, Settlement, and Grand Development. Elaborately Illustrated. Chicago: The National Book Concern, [c1888]. 671 p.

Notes

For Jewish merchantile activity in Salt Lake City with its predominantly Mormon population, see pp. 285-86 (with accompanying illus.). See pp. 600-601 for Ross Browne, a Washoe fortune-hunter, saved from a certain death in the snow-covered mountain wilderness by a Dutch Jew who revives him with brandy from his flask (with accompanying illus.). A perfect copy has a frontispiece of the author.