NMLP P-035423 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-09

Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains

George Frederick Ruxton · John Murray (London) · 1847

This is the first book publication of Ruxton's account of his 1846-47 travels through Chihuahua, El Paso, and up into New Mexico and southern Colorado among trappers and traders -- material Ruxton had not yet reworked into the more fictionalized "Life in the Far West," which followed serially in Blackwood's Magazine the next year

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-035423 for "Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains" by George Frederick Ruxton (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-035423, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).