THE PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF JAMES O. PATTIE OF KENTUCKY. BEING AN EXPEDITION FROM ST. LOUIS, THROUGH THE VAST REGIONS BETWEEN THAT PLACE AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN, AND THENCE BACK THROUGH THE CITY OF MEXICO TO VERA CRUZ, DURING JOURNEYINGS OF SIX YEARS; IN WHICH HE AND HIS FATHER, WHO ACCOMPANIED HIM, SUFFERED UNHEARD OF HARDSHIPS AND DANGERS, HAD VARIOUS CONFLICTS WITH THE INDIANS, AND WERE MADE CAPTIVES, IN WHICH HIS FATHER DIED; TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY, AND THE VARIOUS NATIONS THROUGH WHICH THEY PASSED. EDITED BY TIMOTHY FLINT.
Cincinnati: E. H. Flint, 1833. First edition, second issue. 8vo, 300 pp., 5 engraved plates. Foxed and toned in nineteenth century half morocco and marbled paper over boards, which are rubbed at the joints. Housed in a newly made clamshell box of cloth and morocco with the spine in six..... More