The Santa Fé Trail to California, 1849-1852: The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. San Francisco: Grabhorn Press for The Book Club of California, 1931.

Folio. Folding frontispiece, 2 folding maps, 15 plates. Text printed in red and black. Original orange leather-backed tan cloth boards, spine lettered in blind, 4 raised bands, uncut (very light sunning or rubbing to spine).

 

LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 unnumbered copies of this work which “ranks as one of the most important and highly celebrated overland narratives. Its superb narrative combined with the elegant presentation of the Grabhorn Press make this a cornerstone of any Western travel collection” (Kurutz The California Gold Rush 515). Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 390; GB 158; Howes P-525.