By Horse, Stage & Packet. The Far West Letters of Joseph Pratt Allyn.

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1988 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First edition. One of 450 copies designed by Jack Werner Stauffacher of The Greenwood Press. Printed by Patrick Reagh. Edited by John Nicolson and David K. Strate. 232pp. Eleven illustrations. Pictorial boards, paper spine label. A very fine copy. Allyn, appointed as Associate Judge of the Arizona Territorial government, traveled over the Santa Fe Trail and documented that arduous journey, as well as his further adventures in Arizona, in a series of letters to the "Hartford Press" (1863-1866). The present group of seventeen letters is enhanced by a biographical sketch of the author and annotations. Prospectus laid in. .