12mo. Pp. iii, 521, followed by 12 pages of advertisements. Frontis. portrait photograph with tissue guard. Illustrated with 58 black & white photos and painting reproductions on coated paper and one fold-out map. Bound in blue-gray cloth stamped with red lettering, mounted illustration on front. Top edge dyed brown, others untrimmed. Many leaves uncut. Bookplate of noted Western Americana collector Dr. George William Staempfli on front pastedown; free endpaper excised. Covers lightly soiled and rubbed, some lettering worn from spine. District court clerk and publisher Hewitt stayed in Olympia, Washington from 1862 until moving to Los Angeles in 1876. In 1863 he published Notes by the Way at his Washington Standard newspaper office. This is his greatly expanded version of the migration train that was led by Medorem Crawford. GRAFF, 1875; SMITH, 4393. SOLIDAY I, 1099 ("a well written and detailed account of an overland journey from St. Joseph, Mo., to Olympia, Wash., in 1862 . [the diar