Item #22522 Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire. Lewis H. Garrard.
Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire
Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

Wah-To-Yah, and the Taos Trail; or Prairie Travel and Scalp Dances, with a Look at Los Rancheros from Muleback and the Rocky Mountain Campfire

Cincinnati: H.W. Derby & Co., 1850.

First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 7.5" x 5", pp. 6, 349, in original blind-stamped black cloth with gilt spine lettering, housed in a cloth slipcase with leather spine label. Corners and a few spots on top edge rubbed, small stain on top edge of text block, previous owner's name (Sioux City, Iowa, merchant T.J. Kinkaid) stamped several times on front and rear endpapers, but overall a most attractive copy, clean and tight, with less wear than usually found. A classic account of the Santa Fe Trail. The seventeen-year-old Garrard joined a caravan in Westport Landing, Missouri in 1846 a Santa Fe wagon train led by Col. Ceran St. Vrain. He spent two months at Bent's Fort for before continuing on to Taos, where he attended the trial of some of the Hispano and Pueblo allies who had participated in a revolt against United States rule of New Mexico. Garrard wrote the only eyewitness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men. He returned to Saint Louis in the summer of 1847. Graff 1513: "An important Southwest book by a perceptive observer and a thoroughly captivating writer." Wagner-Camp 182: "In the course of his travels, Garrard met several well-known figures of the last days of the fur trade including Jim Beckwourth, Kit Carson, and George Ruxton." Rittenhouse 236: "Garrard captured the sound of the trapper's language with a skill equal to Ruxton's, and this work remains one of the great classics not only on the Trail but of the entire Southwest." Field 594; Howes G-70; Streeter Sale I, 170; Rader 1538; Sabin 26687.

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