73 pp (including colophon). Illustrated. 8vo. John Thomas Mason's meanderings in the out of the way places of the Western wilds. A short sketch of his ancestry, starting with the famous French explorer, La Salle, who was in the Great Lakes territory of America in 1669. Mason crossed the plains in 1851, and, to the present, has spent 79 years in the Rabbit Creek region and Sierra County. Together with facts - curious, furious, funny or fine - of this rough and rich country in early days which have been little heard of or else forgotten. VG+/Abt VG (old 'tidelines' from waterstain). Green cloth binding lettered in black. Buff dust jacket with color pictorial on front wrapper 1st edition. #373/500. INSCRIBED by Dressler on the ffep.