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AUDUBON, JOHN W[OODHOUSE]. Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850. Being the MS. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold-fields of California. Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906. First edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine, uncut. 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches; 249 pp.; half-title, folding map, frontispiece portrait, plates. Extremities a bit worn, one or two small pale stains to covers, folding map with very short tear near mount not affecting image. Recounts the journey undertaken by the son of John James Audubon during the Gold Rush of '49. "A vivid first-hand picture of the overland experience" (Clark & Brunet). Clark & Brunet 10; Graff 111; Howes A390 ("aa"); Kurutz 22; Rader 201; Wagner-Camp 208. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson