1835 TEXAS 1ed Parker Western SLAVERY Hunting Illinois New Orleans Steamboats

1835 TEXAS 1^ed Parker Western SLAVERY Hunting Illinois New Orleans Steamboats

 

Amos Parker’s “Trip to the West and Texas” is one of the best and most important early accounts of 19^th-century Texas. First published in 1835, this work is filled with descriptions of the Texan landscape with observations on slavery in Texas, hunting (including wild horse catching), and much more from his voyage across the American Midwest. Parker also visited Illinois, the Great Lakes, St. Louis, and the Mississippi River on steamboat to New Orleans.

 

This worked proved to be an important account of the region particularly at a time when this part of the country had not yet been fully discovered and written about.

 

Item number: #25695

Price: $1500

 

PARKER, Amos A.

 

Trip to the West and Texas

 

Concord, N.H.: White & Fisher, 1835. 1^st edition

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • 276
  • 2 engraved plates
• References: Howes P 74; Graff 3183; Sabin 58643; Streeter Texas 1172; Wagner-Camp-Becker 57a:1; Jenkins Basic Texas Books 159; Rader 2588
  • Streeter: “Even though quite prosaic in style, it has for a little known new country like Texas the interest that is present in any early contemporary account of travels”
• Language: English
• Binding: Leather; tight and secure
• Size: ~7.5in X 4.5in (19cm x 11.5cm)
• Rare and desirable with auction records and price comparisons as high as $5,000

 

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