Border Tales: Around the Camp Fire in the Rocky Mountains. [Romance of the Forest, Romance on the Hudson]

New York / London: E.P. Dutton and Co. / Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Phiz [Browne, Hablot Knight]. First American edition. Spine toned, edges a bit rubbed with a few minor blemishes to rear board, front endpapers soiled, frontispiece tissue guard and title page lightly soiled, pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated Christmas 1884. 1878 Hard Cover. xiii, 243 pp. Three-page publisher ad follows text. Red cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations. Engraved frontispiece, engraved plates and illustrations in text, including two by Phiz (a pseudonym of Hablot Knight Browne), who was best known for illustrating works by Charles Dickens. An account of the American West, with a second part related to the Hudson River and western New York, and appendices on: Paul Jones's Great Victory; Davy Crockett; Fall of the Alamo, in Texas. Howes T-435: "These tales - including a fine account of the fall of the Alamo - were told on a surveying expedition from Omaha to the Yellowstone country.