The forty-niners; a chronicle of the California trail and El Dorado
The Forty-Niners is a 1918 history of the California gold rush and overland trail by Stewart Edward White, published in New Haven by Yale University Press for general readers interested in the American West. Its two plates are shown sideways on the page: one pairs two bust-length portrait engravings of men in dark coats, and the other shows a wooded river bank with a low frontier building and a bridge. A designer could take from them the restrained tonal engraving style of early twentieth-century historical books, with soft shading, dense foliage and tightly cropped formal portraits.
