Texan Ranch Life: With Three Months Through Mexico In A "Prairie Schooner"

MARY J. JACQUES

Publication: Horace Cox, 1884, London, 1894

First edition. 8vo. Brown pictorial cloth, titles and decoration stamped in gilt on front cover and spine, decorated front and rear endpapers, 25.5 x 17.7 cm., ix [3], 363 pp., frontispiece, illustrated, plates. Six Score 63: "Mary Jaques was an Englishwoman who spent two years in America from 1889 to 1891. The last part of this rare book describes a trip to Mexico shortly before her return to England, and an earlier trip to the West Coast, but a good part of the work deals with her ranch experiences. Much surprised her, but she took it in her cultured stride." Chapter titles include, Niagara to San Antonio; The History of the Alamo; San Antonio; Kerville, and Arrival at Lechuza Ranch; Domestic Life at Lechuza Ranch; Branding, and First Ride to Junction City; Rounding up Cattle, and Cow Outfits; "Roping." Hailstorm. Coyotes, Skunks, and Flowers; Texan Dancing, Riding, and Driving; Sheep Dipping. Breaking in Bronchos. Visit to Texan Squatter; By "Sunset" Route from San Antonio to San Francisco; The Yosemite Valley. Chinese Quarter in San Francisco; From San Francisco to Salt Lake City; Through the Rockies to Fort Worth and San Antonio; Domestic Life at "The Field." Flood. "Furious Riding through the Town Streets." Masonic Funeral. Preparations for Christmas; The Crystal Column Cave. Caught in a Thunderstorm. Buggy Capsize. Night at Stewart's Camp. Visits from "Drummers." Independence Day. The Lover's Leap. Camp Meetings; Frontier Custom House. Buying Matches. Peyotes and Pellotes. Cloete Ranch. Crossing the Sabinas. Monclova. Monterey. Topo Chico Springs. Saltillo. Disputed Boundary. Courtship in Mexico; Matehuala. Catorce. Vanegas. Salt Works. San Luis Potosi. The Mint. La Pila. San Diego. La Camal. Troncas. Dolores Hidalgo. Hidalgo raises the "Gritto." Morelos succeeds Hidalgo. Augustin de Yturbide. "The Three Guarantees." Independence of Mexico; Our Party Breaks Up. Mules, Pony, "Prairie Schooner," etc., Sold. Santa Gertrudis Mine. "Patio" Process. Apam. Pulque. Museum at City of Mexico. Aztec Gods. Nahoan Indian Superstitions; etc. There are a total of 34 chapters. Full-page plates offer views of calf branding and cowboys at their camp, Plates are foxed but all text pages are clean, a few corner creases have been restored by a professional paper conservator, and all signatures have been rebound with the original spine and covers laid down. Overall a solid very good copy housed in a two-tone quarter leather and cloth clamshell case with raised bands and titles stamped in gold gilt on the spine.

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