Overland With Kit Carson, A Narrative Of The Old Spanish Trail In '48

GEORGE DOUGLAS BREWERTON

Publication: Coward-McCann, Inc, 1930, New York

First Edition. Red Cloth. vii-ix,-301pp. Illustrated with many drawings by the author. Edited by Stallo Vinton, who also provides an excellent Introduction and folding map of the route of Brewerton"s journey from California to Missouri. "Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War, when Kit Carson started East from Los Angeles with dispatches. With him as far as Taos came Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who gives an engrossing account of the journey on the Old Spanish Trail from Los Angeles to Santa Fe, fifteen hundred miles of wilderness. They endured thirst on the long desert jornadas, hunger and danger from mountains stream to Indian attack...From Santa Fe...Brewerton traveled to Independence with a picturesque Santa Fe caravan." An outstanding account of a unique overland journey through hostile territory, providing an important first-hand account of Kit Carson, as a leader, guide, and frontiersman. A fine, bright copy in the scarce dust jacket. Dust jacket shows wear to corners and spine ends, and occassional light soiling. Closed tears and areas of wear to dust jacket are reinforced internally with tape. Increasingly scarce, especially in this condition.