The Butterfield Overland Mail.

ORMSBY, WATERMAN L. [EDITED BY LYLE H. WRIGHT AND JOSEPHINE M. BYRUM]

Publication: The Huntington Library, 1942, San Marino

First edition. Cloth, 179 pp., folding frontispiece, illustrations, charts, introduction. appendices. Index. Map on endpapers. Edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum. "In 1858 Ormsby became the first fare-paying transcontinental passenger, and this book consists of vivid dispatches from en-route to the New York Herald, of which he was a special correspondent. The route from St. Louis to San Francisco was via Red River, El Paso, Tucson, Fort Yuma, and Los Angeles." Of Ormsby, A.C. Greene, in Fifty Best Books On Texas states: "He was witty and tolerant, disposed to be amused rather than infuriated at some of the exciting, or ridiculous, events, places, and people he encountered..." Covers lightly soiled, text clean and tight, in a lightly soiled dust jacket with chip at top edge of front cover with small nicks and closed tears to the corners and extremities. Good copy.