Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 493

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(WEST.) Townshend, Samuel Nugent. Our Indian Summer in the Far West: An Autumn Tour of Fifteen Thousand Miles in Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, and the Indian Territory. 60 albumen photographs on original printed mounts, slightly faded at edges. 4to, modern buckram, with original gilt pictorial cloth covers laid down, and original backstrip mounted to flyleaf; pages each mounted to stubs, pages brittle with occasional marginal chips but generally clean. London, 1880
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An English newspaper editor documents the frontier, and the southwestern sheep and cattle industry, with a particular emphasis on Texas. The photographs are by his travelling companion John George Hyde.
The photograph facing page 87 shows a lone buffalo kept in captivity on the Goodnight ranch, the only one Townsend and Hyde saw on their entire tour. The Goodnights later found a few others for their ranch, creating what is now regarded as the only surviving remnant of the Great Southern Herd. "The book is written as a partial guide for English settlers. It is light and humorous but an excellent work for the area covered"--Clark, New South 227. Howes T323 ("b"). Not known at auction since Swann sold another copy, 18 October 1979, lot 219.