Pattie's Personal Narrative, 1824-1830; Willard's Inland Trade with New Mexico, 1825, and Downfall of the Fredonian Republic; and Malte-Brun's Account of Mexico

A first-person account recounts a six-year overland expedition from the interior to the Pacific and a return route through Mexico, detailing severe hardships, skirmishes and captures, and the death of a companion. It blends travel memoir, practical trading and hunting episodes, and observational sketches of landscapes, settlements, and indigenous peoples encountered. The volume also gathers related pieces on overland commerce with New Mexico, the collapse of a short-lived frontier republic, and a geographic and social survey of Mexico’s towns, productions, and natural curiosities.