Introduction by Charles L. Camp. Illustrated in color by Arvilla Parker. Cloth-backed illustrated boards, printed paper spine label, plain jacket hand-titled on spine. 1 of 500 copies. Subscriber's brochure laid in. Second Edition.

"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). 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. Howes D159; Kurutz 171b Mintz 118.