Don Santiago Kirker

DON SANTIAGO KIRKER

Publication: Muir Dawson, 1948, Los Angeles

First Separate Printing. Limited to 200 copies. Tan Cloth, i, 1-14pp., +3pp. Introduction by Glen Dawson. Notes by Arthur Woodward. Reprinted From The Santa Fe Republican November 20, 1847. Born in Ireland, Kirker came to St. Louis in 1817, went up the Missouri with Ashley in 1822. In 1824 Kirker was in Santa Fe. He visited the Santa Rita copper mines with James O. Pattie and his father, and in 1827 Kirker joined the Patties trapping expedition through the Southwest. He later guarded ore-trains between the Santa Rita mines and Chihuahua. In 1835 Kirker became a trader with the Apaches. He later became a scalphunter in Mexico. In 1849 Kirker moved to California, where he settled in Contra Costa County and died there in 1853. Fine copy.

Inventory Number: 51691