Fortune Favors the Brave: the Life and Times of Horace Bell Pioneer Californian
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (standard size). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards and dust jacket. xvi, 307 p. w/illus., notes & sources, index. An attractive book by well respected small Californian press, coverign the colorful life of Bell (1830 - 1918), covering his youth in Indiana, Gold Rush adventures, military service as a founding member of the Los Angeles Rangers militia, in Mexico and Nicaragua, and later in the US Civil War as a Federal scout. He was a mining pack train driver, and finally a newspaperman running the popular and at times scandalous PORCUPINE newspaper. Very good / very good. Item #22068
Price: $30.00