Trail To Disaster

PATRICIA JOY RICHMOND

Publication: University Press of Colorado, 1990, Niwot, Colorado

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the title page. Color pictorial, perfect bound, still wrappers, xxxii [2], 117 [1] pp., foreword, preface, acknowledgments, illustrated, maps, epilogue, notes, sources of quoted material, bibliography, index. Foreword by Mary Lee Spence. Describes the route of John C. Fremont's fourth expedition from Big Timbers, Colorado, through the San Luis Valley, to Taos, New Mexico. A venture full of tragic events. The expedition encountered extreme difficulties ... deep snow, severe cold in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, and the deaths of nearly a third of the expedition party. Fine copy.