Description: Hardcover Cloth 289 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. American West Reprint edition 1968. Lovely brown boards and black embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear with undamaged corners. Edges have the usual yellowing, some fingerprint stains and spotting. Pages are lightly toned with minor signs of wear and/or age. Tight binding with good hinges. Price clipped dust jacket with the usual shelf wear - tears, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Want to protect the book's dust jacket with a mylar cover? Add eBay item 176708421996 to your purchase. On September 1, 1846, seventeen-year-old Lewis Garrard, set off on the journey of a lifetime into the Far West. Beginning in what is now Kansas City he joined a caravan headed for Bent's Fort in southeastern Colorado near the Spanish Peaks, which was known to the Native Americans as Wah-to-Yah. Just before Garrard had arrived in the southwest Charles Bent, who was the recently appointed Governor of the newly acquired New Mexico Territory, was scalped and killed by Pueblo warriors during the Taos Revolt. Garrard's account is therefore a vivid first-hand account of the Taos Revolt and its aftermath. Through the course of Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail Garrard explains how he came into contact with some of the most famous figures of western history, including Kit Carson, Jim Beckwourth, Ceran St. Vrain, George F. Ruxton, William Bent, and others. Scholars like Robert Gale have highlighted how the book provides "anthropologically accurate" descriptions of the Cheyenne Indians and other Native American tribes in the southwest of America. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the old west, for as the Pulitzer Prize winning author A. B. Guthrie Jr. stated, it is "the genuine article" and brilliantly depicts "the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in." Lewis Hector Garrard was the son of a prominent family from Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1846 he set out for a ten-month trip to the southwestern United States. While in Taos, Garrard attended the trial of some of the Mexicans and Pueblos who had revolted against U.S. rule of New Mexico, newly captured in the Mexican-American War. Garrard wrote the only eye witness account of the trial and hanging of six convicted men. His book Wah-to-Yah was first published in 1850 and he passed away in 1887.
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Signed By: NONE
Book Title: Wah-To-Yah & The Taos Trail
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: NONE
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: American West Publishing
Inscribed: No
Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 1968
Type: HARDCOVER
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: NONE
Author: AUTHOR, Lewis H. Garrard
Personalized: No
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Crime & Thriller, Fairy Tale, Family, Parenting & Relations, History, Military, Romance
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: American History, Civil War, Crime, First Love, Love, Military History, Modern History, Parenting, Thriller, True Crime, True Military Stories, True Stories, World History, World War II
