Afoot and Alone; A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures and Observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc.

Austin: The Book Club of Texas, 1995. 368pp. Quarto [27 cm] Blue cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Fine. Prospectus laid in. Charming travel narrative by the first person who walked alone from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast. Powers had a keen eye and describes the country he passed through vividly, he began in Raleigh, N.C. to San Francisco, a distance of 3,556 miles. His descriptions of the tribes he observed were published in the Department of the Interior's 'Contributions to North American Ethnology, Volume III.' Zamorano Eighty: 61. Cowan p. 181. Eberstadt 104: 256. Desert Voices p.134. Howes P537. Best of the West 185. (truncated) Graff 3339. (Inventory #: 9678)