Introduction by Charles L. Camp. Illustrated in color by Arvilla Parker. Cloth-backed illustrated boards, printed paper spine label. One of 500 copies. Second Edition.

Inscribed presentation copy, signed on the front free endpaper "To Alice & John [Robertson], The only change I'd make in this book if done over, would be to correct the errors. Ed[win] Grabhorn." In 1849 Dawson left Texas for another go at California, this time by the southern route, and after visiting Los Angeles he went on to the Mariposa diggings, and later got into freighting. "Dawson was a member of the Bidwell-Bartleson party... An important reminiscence, Dawson's was the last one written by a member of the 1841 party" - Mintz 118; Howes D159; Kurutz 171b; Adams Herd 661; Cowan p. 161.