Item #55400 Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains. George F. Ruxton.

Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains

London: John Murray, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. 332pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] Rebound in plain brown cloth, with new endpapers, lacking the ads, and with the title page reattached. Some restoration work to the two terminal leaves, in the margins. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letter press printer, John Ruyle. Howes R556. Wagner-Camp, 139:1. Flake 7459. Good. Item #55400

The narrator meets a party of members from the Mormon Battalion, just as they are leaving the California expedition in order to join other Mormons wintering on the Arkansas River, before continuing on to California again in the following spring.

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