Lot 218
  • 218

Garrard, Lewis Hector

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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • 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.; New York: A.S. Barnes & Co., 1850.
  • paper, ink, leather
8vo (185 x 127 mm). Original blind-stamped brown cloth, gilt spine title; a fine copy.

first edition, presentation copy inscribed to Lemuel Shaw Jr .
Garrard left Westport in 1846 in a Santa Fe wagon train and returned to St. Louis in the summer of 1847. His account describes the Taos Massacre and the subsequent trials of prisoners. During his travels, Garrard met several well-known figures, notably Jim Beckworth and Kit Carson.

Literature

Graff 1513; Howes G-70; Rader 1538; Rittenhouse 236; Sabin 26687; Streeter I:170; Tutorow 3428; Wagner-Camp-Becker 182.