Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1951.

First enlarged edition.

1951 date printed to the title page.

Inscribed, SIGNED, with Spanish language salutation wishes for good fishing, by the author to the half-title page.

An historical novel depicting the Southwest from 1821-1846 and about Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Doña Tules, who ran a gambling house and brothel in the 1840s. The gambling madam grew wealthy and was well-received in society. She is buried under the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.

Laughlin’s father, N.B. Laughlin, came to Santa Fe from Texas in 1879 and became a Territorial Supreme Court judge in the early 1900s.

Mild damp stains to the covers front cover, some remains of white paper residue to the upper corner of the rear cover, else about very good in green linen with partially flecked-off gilt embossed titles to the spine, green headband and tail-band, map illustrated end-papers; lacking a dust jacket.

Octavo; 361 pages; glossary.

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