Description: 1909 Abram Sortore BIOGRAPHY AND EARLY LIFE SKETCH Missouri OVERLAND California DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION: Sortore, Abram BIOGRAPHY AND EARLY LIFE SKETCH OF THE LATE ABRAM SORTORE INCLUDING HIS TRIP TO CALIFORNIA AND BACK, [Alexandria, Mo, 1909]: [2], 10 pp; 8 vo. [5-3/4 by 8-3/4 inches]; Original printed Stapled paper wrappers printed in double columns. DATE: Privately printed in a small number, this pamphlet was likely printed later than the writing of the letter dated March 25, 1909, Alexandria, Mo., and though bibliographers use this date and place, the actual date and place of publication is probably uncertain. CONDITION: Fine [SEE SCANS]. SECURITY: ARGUS BOOKS [or other wording] in PINK may have been super-imposed over the images for security and are not on the actual item. REFERENCES: Kurutz 593: This autobiographical statement consists of a letter written to Sortore’s niece, Jennie Thomas, dated March 25, 1909. He wrote: “I was then 21 years old and with no sweetheart to leave behind I joined with three of my neighbors in the great rush to California for ‘Gold’.” Sortore left from Keokuk, Iowa, in March 1850, traveled overland via the California Trail, and arrived in Placerville, where he found his first nugget. Sortore and companions mined near Louisville on the South Fork of the American River. Eventually he mined on the South Fork of the Yuba River near Bridgeport. In October 1857 he returned home via Nicaragua. MINTZ 431: "Sortore started near Keokuk, Iowa and traveled to Hangtown [Placerville]. A very scarce pamphlet with only a few copies known to exist”. FLAKE 8281: Includes a brief description of his encounter with Mormonism. COWAN IV p.894: MATTES 970: TOWNLEY p.141: SHIPPING: FREE: All paper items [broadsides, labels, pamphlets, brochures, photos, etc.] that are 1/4 of an inch thick or less are shipped between two double-walled pieces of cardboard [equal to 4 sheets of cardboard and are virtually impossible to bend] by USPS Media mail and at actual cost [unless other arrangements have been made with seller]. [RNN – B2 – S3]
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