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[6], [9]-457 pp. 9x5½, original gilt-pictorial blue cloth. First Edition.

"The rangers were largely occupied with border police duties or its equivalent service, and many delinquents were apprehended by them and brought to justice or otherwise exterminated. Bell has written more minutely upon the `seamy side' of society than any other California author, and there is a fascination about the book. From the long lists given us of murderous villains, thieving scoundrels, and other unholy characters, it would appear that the polite society of the south in those days was neither large nor extensive" - Cowan. J. Gregg Layne, in The Zamorano 80, notes that "Major Bell's reminiscences were the first cloth-bound book to be printed, bound and published in the city of Los Angeles...." Cowan p.44; Graff 240; Howes B325; Zamorano Eighty 5.