The front flap blurb reads in part, “Readers of that fascinating and popular book ‘A Tenderfoot in Colorado’ have been eagerly awaiting ... his further exciting adventures in New Mexico in the thrilling days of lynching and pioneering.” This is the second memoir of an Englishman who spent ten years in the ‘Wild West’ hoping to make his fortune: it chronicles a period spent around Jemez, NM, getting to know the Pueblos and Navajos of the area, hunting and exploring through the desert southwest, and ending with an encounter with Billy the Kid and his gang who wanted to rustle the herd of horses he was driving to Colorado for sale to miners.

Richard Baxter Townshend, ended life as an Oxford don, and friend of composer Edward Elgar, whose third Enigma Variation was dedicated to “R.B.T.” As a young man, he left England soon after getting his degree from Cambridge University, and traveled to Colorado in search of adventure and fortune, spending ten years as a cattle rancher, trader, and adventurer largely in Colorado, Texas and New Mexico. He died about the time his first volume of memoirs was published; a third volume, ‘Last Memories of a Tenderfoot,’ would be published in 1926 (please ask; we have it).