Fifteen Thousand Miles by Stage. A Woman’s Unique Experience during Thirty Years of Path Finding and Pioneering from the Missouri to the Pacific and from Alaska to Mexico. With 350 Illustrations from Drawings by Charles M. Russell and Others, and from Photographs. by STRAHORN, Carrie Adele - 1911

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911. First edition. Thick octavo. xxv,[1], 673, [1] pp. Frontispiece portrait and 350 illustrations from photographs and drawings (eighty-five by Charles M. Russell, including four color plates). Each plate accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress. Original green cloth lettered in gilt on front cover and spine, pictorial label on front cover, decorative endpapers. Minor extremity wear and previous owner's discreet signature but a very good copy.Mrs. Strahorn travelled throughout the West with her husband while he was engaged in writing promotionals for the Union Pacific Railroad. Their travels were extensive, and the author’s enthusiasm and eye for detail make this one of the key narratives by a woman. The color plates and multitude of black and white vignettes and plates by Charles Russell render it a prime Russell item as well.The author was “glad to linger over the humorous, to separate from its crude surroundings the picturesque element, and to endeavor to perpetuate the romances of the miner and prospector, the cowboy and the bullwhacker” (Preface).