Californios: The Saga of the Hard-Riding Vaqueros, America's First Cowboys
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1949. Jo J. Mora. First Edition. Octavo. 175pp. Numerous full page and in-text illustrations. Brown cloth with gilt lettering and vaquero spur stamp to front cover in Jo Mora designed dustjacket and endpapers. A near fine copy (offsetting from news clipping) in near fine dust jacket (minor wear to extremities with chip at spine head). Item #23542
ISBN: 0922029199
In this, his last book, Jo Mora pays tribute to the daring and skill of the California vaqueros, "that hearty breed of missionary-trained horsemen who tended the immense mission herds for eighty years before the Texas cowboys appeared on our national scene." (Grandeau & Shorts Books B13).
Price: $150.00