Vasquez; Or, The Hunted Bandits Of The San Joaquin. Containing Thrilling Scenes And Incidents Among The Outlaws And Desperadoes Of Southern California. With A Full And Accurate Account Of The Capture, Trial, And Execution Of The Noted Bandit

BEERS, ESQ, GEO A.

Publication: Robert M De Witt, Publisher, 1875, New York

First Edition. 8vo. Pictorial Wrappers, 141 [3] pp., double column, Illustrated. Six Guns 186 says: "Rare." "Before he wrote this book for the New York publishers, Beers, a young reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle, was with the posse that chased and captured Vasquez. Parts of his story are different from Truman's and Sawyer's and in the love themes he seems partial to fiction. Like many reporters of that day, he no doubt embellished his account here and there, but as a whole it is dependable." "When the posse burst inside, Allen's woman tried to block the way while Vasquez jumped out a back window in the direction of his horse. A deputy named Johnson fired a wild shot at Vasquez, and then George Beers, a journalist by profession, brought him down with a load of buckshot in his legs."--Bill O'Neal, Encyclopedia of Western Outlaws. Bottom two inches of front wrapper is neatly replaced in facsimile by a master paper conservator, moderately foxed throughout, small nicks to the fore-edge extremities, else a very good copy of a very rare item, housed in a clamshell case with a leather spine label and titles stamped in gilt.

Inventory Number: 52922