Clarke, Asa Bement

Travels in Mexico and California: Comprising a Journal of a Tour from Brazos Santiago, through Central Mexico, by way of Monterey, Chihuahua, the country of the Apaches, and the River Gila, to the Mining Districts of California. Boston: Wright & Hasty's Steam Press, 1852



12mo (7 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.; 185 x 114 mm); occasional foxing. Original printed wrappers, in blue half-morocco slipcase; covers dampstained, foot of backstrip gone with a few small tears.

Graff 746; Streeter V, 3169;  Wagner-Camp 210

First edition. Clarke was secretary of the Hampden Mining Company, and this is an account of his trip to Los Angeles by way of Mexico in 1849. His work is the first description of this unusual route from Camargo, Mexico through Chihuaha and Sonora to Arizona and California. Clarke spent the winter of 1850-1851 at Sacramento, Marysville, and along the Yuha River.