Description
Item Description:The Cushing Library/Chapman Texas Collection copy is part of the Floyd & Louise Chapman Texas & Borderlands Collection.
Also issued under title: The travels and romantic adventures of Monsieur Violet among the Snake Indians and wild tribes of the great Western prairies. -- London, 1843.
Incorporates information and incidents, often verbatim, from newspaper articles written by G.W. Kendall and by Josiah Gregg and later included in the "Narrative of the Texas Santa Fé expedition" and "Commerce of the prairies". Cf. Raines' Bibliog. of Texas and the prefaces to the two titles mentioned.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:3 volumes : folded map ; 19 cm