BARTLETT, John R.

Personal Narrative of Explorations

Item #38255

BARTLETT, John R. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora and Chihauhua, Connected with the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 1850, '51, '52, and '53. New York, 1854. Two volumes. [2], xxii, 506;;. plus plates, folding map, and [6]pp. of ads; [2], xvii, [1], 624pp. plus plates. Folding frontispiece in each volume. Fine in a cloth slipcase. Howes B-201. Graff 198. Flake 325. Wagner-Camp 234:1. Streeter Sale 173. Abbey 658. Hill, p. 18. Clark III:272. Wheat Gold Regions 252. Cowan, p. 36. Raines, p. 22. Rader 287. Reese, Best of the West 131. Powell Southwestern Century 9. A cornerstone work of southwestern travel and exploration. The expedition left Indianola in September 1850 and spent nearly three years travelling throughout the region in an effort to determine the border between the United States and Mexico, which had been left indefinite by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo after the Mexican War. The resultant work remains one of the most readable and accurate accounts of the American Southwest for the period, and the illustrative matter are some of the most competent depictions of the area. "Bartlett's Narrative is an essential book for the southwest..." - Graff. The large folding map shows the region in detail. Bartlett later became the first librarian of the John Carter Brown Library.

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