Description:  Burton, Richard Francis, The City of the Saints & Across the Rocky Mountains to California. 1861 First Edition/Printing by Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts - London. 3 maps on one folding sheet, folding plan, 8 plates, over twenty tissue guarded illustrations, frontis and nine text illustrations. [2], x,,[2], 707, [1] Pages. 8vo. Contemporary calf-backed boards, spine gilt in 6 compartments; front cover re-attached, scattered foxing, hinge cracked at front blank preliminary pages. Generally sound otherwise with Ex-Libris labels to front decorated endpapers. (Flake 1027; Graff 512; Howes B1033, Penzer , Pages 68-69; Sabin 9497; Wagner-Camp 370:1.)
 
The Book: This was to be Burton's last new name to the list of "Holy Cities" to visit. In 'The City of the Saints'  the famous explorer of Africa and the Middle East investigates the American West. The book was written soon after his celebrated account of his journey to Mecca and Medina. "Sir Richard departed from St. Joseph, Mo. on August 7, 1860. Travelling through Sioux territory he arrived in Salt Lake City on August 25. After a stay of about one month in Utah, he continued on to California, stopping briefly at Carson City and Virginia City on the way. Burton was very interested in the Mormons. He had two interviews with Brigham Young, and wrote about them sympathetically. 
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