Across The Sierras In Winter. A Holiday Keepsake Edition Of California History

[CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY]Y

Publication: California Historical Society, 2001, San Francisco and Los Angeles, 2002

First edition. 8vo. Pictorial stiff wrappers, n. p. [48 pp.], illustrated from twenty-one plates. This holiday keepsake about winter in the Sierra Mountains is illustrated by twenty-one scenic plates ... "Chilly images of trains, protective snow sheds, snow - weighted trestles and bridges, mechanical snow plows on engines, and frozen tracks. The photos also show steep, white mountain slopes with towering pines rising from them, houses buried in the snow, and men bundled against the cold and hard at work clearing the passage for the powerful locomotives of the Southern Pacific Railroad," ... pictures depicting the difficulties of transportation. Fine copy.

Inventory Number: 53346