Borderlander: The Life Of James Kirker, 1793-1852

RALPH ADAM SMITH

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, ix [3], 326 pp., frontis., preface, illustrated, maps, notes, bibliography, index. A biography of one of the most infamous characters of the American/Mexican borderlands, often referred to as a SCALP HUNTER. Kirker was a U.S. immigrant from Ireland who moved from Missouri to New Mexico and was eventually employed by the Mexican government to end the Apache raids in Mexico and the southwest territories. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 43706