My Life in the Mountains and on the Plains. The Newly Discovered Autobiography

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First edition. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert A. Griffen. Octavo. 9x6 inches. Pp. xxi, 301. Photographs and drawings. Notes, bibliography and index. Brown cloth, extensive gilt-lettered and decorated spine. Lower corner slightly jammed, but a fine, crisp copy with pictorial dust jacket (jacket price-clipped, top edge with 2 short closed tears). Presentation inscription, signed by the Editor, Robert A Griffen. Meriwether first went to New Mexico in 1820 by a route that occasionally touched points along the Santa Fé Trail. He was arrested by the Spaniards and released. Meriwether lived with three companions on the Great Plains through the bitter winter of 1820-21, and became a trader at Fort Osage before going back east and returning back to New Mexico in 1853. He served as governor of New Mexico, 1853-57. This autobiography describes his trip west over the Trail and two round trips to the East, 1853-56. His descriptions of stagecoaches are historically useful. [Rittenhouse: 410]. .