Illustrated with 13 color plates, some double-page, from paintings by Charles Shaw; endpaper maps showing Duval's route. (4to) 13½x9¾, linen-backed pictorial boards, paper spine label, plain paper jacket. One of 450 copies printed by the Wind River Press.

A handsome and wonderfully illustrated book, containing Duval's previously unpublished reminiscences of his 1849 Gila Trail journey from Texas to the California gold fields and historian Dillon's lucid commentary. Kurutz 212; BCC 186. Oval bookplate of John Broome. With prospectus, and sheet from the publisher, apologizing for the delay in publication. Also laid in is a catalog from the Book Club of California's auction of the "Original Paintings illustrating Texas Argonauts."