Gila Monsters and Red-eyed Rattlesnakes : Don Maguire's Arizona Trading Expeditions, 1876-1879 / edited by Gary Topping by Maguire, Don - 1997

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997. xviii, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Covers three trips into the West, mostly Arizona, by an itinerant trader. The author travelled through the area in the late 1870s and apparently wrote the account in 1883. The manuscript seems to have been typed by a secretary, as the author read it in 1931, 2 years before his death. Gary Topping reworked the extant edition and brought it to print. Maguire has his opinions and views about Mormons, Indian groups, Mexicans, miners, and others, but first and foremost, he was a perceptive traveller who presented a first-hand view of a long-gone era. Near Fine condition in like dustjacket.. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine.