The Prairie Traveler: A Handbook for Overland Expeditions, with Maps, Illustrations, and Itineraries of the Principal Routes between the Mississippi and the Pacific

xviii, [2], 21-220 pp. 8vo. Black leather spine over yellow paper-covered boards, gilt titles with belt buckle motif on spine. Maps on endpapers, engraved saddle illustration on half-title page. 1961 reissue of the 1859 original, which provided "detailed instructions and suggestions on kinds, makes and sources of foodstuffs needed; on medicines, equipment, animals, tenting gear, tools" for "westward-bound wagon trains and travellers."