THE DEATHS OF THE BRAVOS

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1962. Book. Illus. by W. M. Cary;. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. (xi) 467 pp. Black boards decorated in gilt on the spine; endpaper maps; yellow upper edge. Edgewear with light chipping on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; previous owner's name inside. The cover features Water Leaves No Trail by W. M. Cary, reprinted from Harper's Weekly September 9 1876. The Chapters are: Old Hickory's Horsewhip; A Pair of Western Mariners; The Explosion at Natchez; The Countryless Patriot; The Camel's Nose in New Mexico's Tent; The Demise of a Legend; The Siege that Fizzled; Hugh Glass's Rifle; The Character of the Grizzly; A Buckskin Squire of Dames; A Tour of a Secret Empire; Sought and Unsought Meetings; Westerners on the Warpath; In Quest of the Santa Buenaventura; Of Bright and Shaded Red Waters; Three Legs for Two Men; The Jostling Beaver Skinners; Blood in Dusty Country; The Man of a Knife; Commanches Met by Water; An Unlikely Man of Destiny; From Tom to White Hair; The Impact of Wyeth's Freaks; A Pair of Caravanserais; Colonel Bowie's Bite of Hay; The Gathering of Blades at the Alamo; Fighters and a Faineant; Gone Beaver; Old Hickory Has His Way; A Dreamer Reaches Oregon; A Wandering Opportunist; The Fracas in the Council House; No Pretty Boy for Corpse; Scalping for a Living; A Trio of Bad Sendings; Tom Benton Eyes the Pacific; The Renegade Missionaries; Old Hickory's Source of Content; Looking for a Home; Incorporated Claret Takes Santa Fe; A Grizzly on a Flag; Sam Walker's Dime; A Dragoon Gets a Baggage Train; Kirker Gets Even for a Bilking; Joe Meek Meets a Cousin; Santa Anna's Wonderful Dress Coat; Prophets and Profits; A Mulligan of Disasters; Good Riding and Bad Planning; The Golden Catchall; Saints and Killers; The City Gold Built; The Sacking of Fort Bridger; A Quintet of Hanged Cayuses; Wild Cat's Confederacy; Weightman Draws His Bowie Again; The Great American Desert; A Pickled Head and a Stovepipe Cannon; The Stolen City; The Needle in the Big Haystack; Jim Bridger Returns a Call; The Martyrdom of Joe Stokes; A Beheaded Dead Man; Sam Houston's Great Scheme; The Printed Word in the Rockies; Pistols for the Judge and the Senator; Slade of the Central Overland; The Baker from Nevada City; A Bluff at Pinos Altos; The Grouse upon the Cadaver; The Message of the Ditches; The Tethered Mustang; Recessional Along the Colorado; and The Face Above a Grave; followed by a bibliography and tables of leading characters and events..