This was quite a hard book to transcribe, and I hope there are not now too many errors remaining. For one thing several of the people of the book speak a very rough version of the language, so that there are many hundreds of “words” appearing in the book, that are not in the dictionary. And the “new” words are not always consistently spelt.

There are numerous Spanish or Mexican words used in the book, but I am no scholar in these tongues. I just did my best to get them right.

Another problem was that the type used to print the book had been damaged in many places, which meant that it was sometimes very hard to decipher. After much poring there remains only one damaged word in the book, of which I am not certain.

As if this were not enough I made the mistake of scanning the book too dark, which meant that in very many cases a full stop following the letters ‘t’ and sometimes ‘e’ had not come correctly through the OCR process; and also any stains on the pages obscured the letters under them. This greatly increased the amount of work needed to transcribe the book.

I suppose this is among the very first “cowboy and Indian” books. If you are interested in this genre, here is the book for you.

The first edition of this book is dated 1860. The edition used is dated 1860. The publisher was George Routledge and Sons Ltd, London. The number of pages is 408.