The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

  • Hardcover
  • New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964
By Stegner, Wallace
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 331pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Violet cloth with a silver stamped title on the spine, and small ornamental vignettes stamped in gilt, silver and lilac on the front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Spine ends moderately bumped. In the dust jacket, with darkening to the spine, and light chipping to the edges. With ephemera for the "Seventh Annual Evening with an Author" (Hotel Utah, 1981) tucked in. History of the Mormon trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City. A volume in the "American Trails Series." Winner of the 1965 Award of Merit of the American Association for State and Local History.

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