Idaho : her gold fields, and the routes to them : a handbook for emigrants / by Capt. Jas. L. Fisk. 1922?

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Idaho : her gold fields, and the routes to them : a handbook for emigrants / by Capt. Jas. L. Fisk. 1922?

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Typescript copy of the first twenty-four pages of the published book. The copy appears to have been typed and signed by Charles N. Kessler, Helena, Montana, 1922.

24, [1] leaves ; 27 cm. + 1 photograph.

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Fisk, James Liberty, 1835-1902

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Fisk was born in New York of Irish extraction, the eldest of six sons of John B. and Jerusha T. Fisk. He worked as a "raftsman, farmer, carriage maker, and newspaperman" for the Daily Courier of Lafayette, Indiana. Four of his five brothers also became newspapermen. Becoming engrossed with the western frontier, he moved to White Bear Lake, Minnesota, sometime in the 1850s, married Lydia Burson, and started farming. In 1857, he was in the expedition of William H. Nobles which tried unsuccessfu...