BIEBER, Ralph P. (ed.) .

The Southwest Historical Series (Historical Documents, HithertoUnpublished or Inaccessible, Depicting Social and Economic Conditions inthe Southwest during the Nineteenth Century).

Arthur H. Clark Co., Glendale, CA: 1931-1943. First edition, comprising the following titles: (1) Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847, by James Josiah Webb (1931, 301 pp., plates, folding map); (2) Frontier Life in the Army, 1854-1861, by Eugene Bandel (translated by Olga Bandel and Richard Jente; 1932, 330 pp., plates, folding map); (3) Journal of a Soldier under Kearney and Doniphan, 1846- 1847, by George Rutledge Gibson (1935, 371 pp., plates, folding map); (4) Marching with the Army of the West, 1846-1848, by Abraham R. Johnston, Marcellus B. Edwards, and Philip Gooch Ferguson (1936, 368 pp., plates, folding map); (5) Southern Trails to California in 1849, (1937, 386 pp., plates, folding map); (6) Wah-To-Yah and the Taos Trail, by Lewis H. Garrard (1938, 377 pp., plates, folding map; prospectus laid in; cf. Howes G-70); (7) Exploring Southwestern Trails, 1846-1854, by Philip St. George Cooke, William H.C. Whiting, and Francois X. Aubrey (1938, 383 pp., plates, folding map); (8) Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest, by Joseph G. McCoy (1940, 435 pp., plates; cf. Howes M- 72); (9) Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859, by Luke Tierney, William B. Parsons, and summaries of the other fifteen (edited by LeRoy R. Hafen, 1941, 346 pp., plates, folding map); (10) Colorado Gold Rush: Contemporary Letters and Reports, (edited by LeRoy R. Hafen, 1941, 386 pp., plates, folding map); (11) Overland Routes to the Gold Fields, 1859, from Contemporary Diaries: Arkansas River Route, Platte River Route, Leavenworth and Pike's Peak Express Route, Smoky Hill Trail, etc., (edited by LeRoy R. Hafen, 1942, 320 pp., plates, folding map); (12) Analytical Index to the Series (1943, 364 pp.). Howes S-791 ("b"). 8vo. 12 volumes. Original red cloth, gilt title on spines. Volumes unevenly faded, bookplates in most volumes, one volume with an old institutional stamp on the rear pastedown. Still a very good set.

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