First edition. Hitchcock, a New York socialite, and her friend Edith van Buren traveled with their Great Dane Ivan from San Francisco to Alaska by steamer, up the Yukon River by barge, and settled on land outside Dawson. Both women become free miners amid the Gold Rush of 1898, in.....
An early promotional pamphlet for a hernial truss, featuring a folding-plate of the patented apparatus and directions for use. A prominent and influential doctor in New York, Amos G. Hull (1775–1835) was a pioneer physician, surgeon and inventor of the “Patent Hinge Truss,” for the treatment of Prolapsus Uteri.....
A poetic eulogy for the murdered student Josie Langmaid, also relating the circumstances of her horrific death as well as a description of the public memorial created for her. On the morning of October 4, 1875, the beautiful 17-year-old Josie Langmaid did not show up for school. When Pembroke.....