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Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains

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Title: Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains
Author: Ruxton, George F.
Description: 312 pp. 7½x5¼, 20th century ¾ gilt-ruled morocco and marbled boards, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; bound by R.R. Donnelley & Sons. First American Edition.Originally issued in two parts, with the wrappers to both parts bound in at rear. Ruxton traveled through Mexico to the Rocky Mountains, acting (as Wagner-Camp quotes F.E. Voelker) "in the dual capacity of roving commercial attache of the British diplomatic service and commercial agent of the Mexican government, apparently for the purpose of re-establishing the Santa Fe trade that had been interrupted by the Mexican War." Rittenhouse notes that Ruxton "is recognized as one of the great classic writers on the Mountain Men in the 1840s." Howes R553; Rader 2856 Rittenhouse 499; Sabin 74501; Wagner-Camp 139:2.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Harper
Date Published: 1848