Notes Taken in Sixty Years
St. Louis: R.P. Studley & Co., 1883. First Edition. Octavo. Item #018115
[4] 336 pp., frontispiece portrait of author (artotype photographic process). First issue (with the artotype portrait present). Elliott includes a very humorous account of his aborted attempt to emigrate from Pittsburgh to Texas in 1837 when he encountered the fine and large steamer Constellation with a Lone Star flag captained by a German recruiting emigrants (or more likely cannon fodder). Elliott includes some mention of cattle and herdsmen, such as "The Herder's Tale written in dialect. The artotype portrait was made by a process using metal or glass plates coated with dichromated gelatin to produce a printing surface. [Howes E111."Chapters on old-time mining, railroads of long ago, the first locomotive in Illinois, Indians, early California, etc."; Eberstadt, Modern Narratives of the Plains and the Rockies 156. Garrett, The Mexican-American War, p. 210. (on William Doniphan); Graff 1236. "Port[rait] not in later issues." Rittenhouse 186: "Elliott spent many years in Saint Louis and also went up the Missouri. He describes his trip over the Santa Fe Trail with Doniphan’s column during the Mexican War and his return east over the Trail in 1847." Saunders 2876. Tutorow 3642]. Bound in original green cloth stamped in gilt and blind. Some shelf wear, hinges cracked (but strong), light marginal browning to text, overall very good. Ownership ink stamp of Leila C. Elliott of Coffeyville. Scarce with the portrait.
Price: $145.00