1st in this attractive edition, edited by Walter Blair. 450pp, brown cloth covered boards with gilt top edge and publisher's logo to front, no dustjacket, as issued. Frontispiece portrait and other b + w illustrations. A new, Mint, copy. The author's Memoirs from his early days in Missouri, as a river pilot, overland to Nevada, mining, and jobs in journalism.

adventure, autobiography, Missouri, Nevada, journalist, miner, prospector, river pilot