[6], xvii, 256, [1] pp. Edited by George P. Hammond & Edward H. Howes. Frontispiece portrait; 2 folding maps. 10x6¼, brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 1 of 750 copies printed by the Westgate Press. First Edition.

Important diary beginning April 3, 1849, when Eccleston left New York for Galveston, Texas, & concluding Dec. 28 of the same year in the desert outside of San Diego. Kurutz quotes Etter as noting that "Eccleston's diary is the only one that has come to light describing 1849 travel on the [Southwestern] trail" - Kurutz 216; Howes E34.