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Zustand: FINE. First printing. The diaries of Larkin, a young, properous businessman from St Louis, who travelled to Santa Fe in the hopes of improving his health, edited and annotated by Barbour. with a foreword by Marc Simmons. Larkin travelled to Santa Fe in William Bent's caravan in the fall of 1856, and his diaries of the trip as a "tourist" detail his impressions of Plains Indians & New Mexican life. Includes appendices with newspaper accounts, some of his letters from 1866. Photographs, double page route map, extensive notes, bibliography, index. xvi, 202 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Illustrations by Andrew Burns. (illustrator). Limited edition. Oblong 4to. 77,(1)pp. Finely printed by hand on Rives paper by Pamela Smith. Introduction by David J. Weber. Bound by Priscilla Spitler in maroon Centennial book cloth, with spine title in silver and a hand-printed paper vignette on the upper board. One of 150 numbered copies in cloth, from a total edition of 165 copies. This is copy number 28, and is signed by the printer, the compiler, the introducer, the illustrator and the binder. A fine copy. A compilation of some of the finest stories by and about mountain men. .