Heading: (Southwest Historical Series)
Author: Bieber, Ralph P. and LeRoy R. Hafen, editors
Title: The Southwest Historical Series
Place Published: Glendale, CA
Publisher:Arthur H. Clark Company
Date Published: 1931-1943
Description: Twelve volumes including index volume. With additional copy of volume 6. (8vo) original red cloth, Covenant paper, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Only 866 copies of the Index volume printed, the lowest number of copies printed in the series, which limits the number of complete sets.Complete set of this famous collection of southwestern travel accounts, including those of Webb, Bandel, Gibson, Johnston, Garrard, Cooke, and McCoy, as well as compendiums of rare documents relating to the Colorado Gold Rush, Pike's Peak Gold Rush, southern trails to California in 1849, and the Southwest in general. "This is the first major series published after the company's move to Glendale, California. Ralph P. Bieber of Washington University in St. Louis, was the editor of the first eight volumes. Due to slow delivery of manuscripts, his contract was canceled and LeRoy R. Hafen, State Historian of Colorado, assumed responsibility for completing the series" - Clark & Brunet.Important set reprinting (and in some cases the first printings of) original accounts of the Southwest, including:
Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847 by James Josiah Webb
Eugene Bandel's Frontier Life in the Army, 1854-1861
George R. Gibson's Journal of a Soldier Under Kearny and Doniphan, 1846-1847
Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail by Lewis H. Garrard
Plus letters and diaries of the overland trail to California in 1849, journals of army exploration in New Mexico & Arizona, accounts of the Pike's Peak Gold Rush, etc.
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Minor shelfwear, some spines gently sunned, else a fine set.