Fetch The Oxen Down:  The Tragic 1864 Diary Of James M. Craw / Concord, Minnesota To The Smoke Creek Desert, Nevada Territory – The Before And After Of A Fateful Journey To San Jose, California. (R. Joe King & Mary Bingham – Blue Traveler Press, 2005). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 2000 COPIES. Foreword by Morris L. Carter, Jr. & edited by Daniel G. Judkins.

This previously unpublished emigrant diary of nineteen year-old James M. Craw represents the hub of the wheel of a much broader story. The connecting spokes detail years of research into the reasoning for the Craw family’s move west, and the before and after of that tragic overland journey. BLUE TRAVELER PRESS is proud to add another thread to the fabric of the historical tapestry of the Great American West. Transcribed and written by R. Joe King and Mary Bingham, Fetch The Oxen Down preserves a page from the past for both the present and the future.

200 pp, 51 photographs and illustrations, 3 large interpretive pocket maps, endnotes, index. 18 pages in full color. Paperback only in a 5 ˝” X 8 ˝” format. ISBN 13 978-0-9774539-0-0 @ $14.95.