The First Military Escort on the Santa Fe Trail 1829. From the Journal and Reports of Major Bennet Riley and Lieutenant Philip St. George Cooke

Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1952. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and rules gilt stamped on the backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Volume 7 of the American Trail Series. The journals of Riley and Cooke recount the governmental response to demands for protection of the Santa Fe caravans. The accounts include information on the fur trade, the Bents, international relations, and the trial and introduction of oxen for use on southwestern trails. Clark & Brunet 320. Rittenhouse 675.