A British Butterfly Collector on the Texas Frontier

The Protagonist Is A Young British Butterfly Collector Who Working For The British Museum In London Collected The Little-Known Butterflies And Moths At The Time In Texas In 1840. The Collector Teamed With A Spanish Seorita To Collect Them Across Texas When Traveling In An Ox-Drawn Covered Wagon Over Rough And Muddy Roads And Through The Ranges Of Hostile Native Americans. The Book Is About Their Collections And At Times Hazardous Adventures. The Text Is A Natural History Of The Butterfly And Moth Species Pictured. The Book Is Also A History Of Pioneer Texas Of The 1840S As Well As The Ethnology Of Comanche Indians.