Publication: The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1965, Chicago
Reprint of 1854 original printing. Two volumes. Simulated Leather. Preface, Index, & excellent 28 page Introduction to this reprint edition. xxii, 506 (6) pp. & xvii, 624 pp. Woodcut illustrations throughout. 2 large folding Maps in Volume One and 1 folding Map in Volume Two. Basic Texas Books 12 describes this as "the most scholarly and scientific description of Southwest Texas of its era," as well as "one of the best American travel books ever written." Bartlett provides a day to day account of the movements of the boundary survey party (scientists, artists, teamsters, surveyors, and a military escort) as they traveled from Indianola, Texas to San Antonio, Fredericksburg, El Paso, San Diego, and back to Corpus Christi. The expedition "was valuable for contributions regarding mines, minerals, and geology in general, and vastly advanced knowledge of the natural history, ethnology, meteorology, and topography of the areas traversed" Wagner-Camp 234-1 says: "Bartlett was a talented artist, observer, and reporter, who contributed greatly to the knowledge of the geography and topography of the Southwest in his Personal Narrative." Many early emigrants to Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona used Bartlett's account as a guidebook on their trek west. Five very small cuts to fore-edge of front panel of Volume Two, else near Fine.
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