Title: The Travels of Jedediah Smith: A Documentary Outline Including the Journal of the Great American Pathfinder
Author: Sullivan, Maurice S.
Description: [14], [2], 195 pp. Illustrated with 12 plates from paintings, photographs, etc.; folding facsimile map. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. First Edition.Finely printed gathering of source material on one of the great early pathfinders in the American West, an astonishingly intellectual individual among the rowdies of the fur traders. Howes S1127 describes the book as the "first printing of Smith's own account of his entrance into the fur trade in 1822, his journey up the Missouri to the Rockies, his trip to Salt Lake and across the Mojave desert and up the Sacramento in 1827-8."
Heading: (Fine Arts Press)Place Published: Santa Ana, CA
Publisher: Fine Arts Press
Date Published: 1934
Author: Sullivan, Maurice S.
Description: [14], [2], 195 pp. Illustrated with 12 plates from paintings, photographs, etc.; folding facsimile map. 8vo. Pictorial cloth. First Edition.Finely printed gathering of source material on one of the great early pathfinders in the American West, an astonishingly intellectual individual among the rowdies of the fur traders. Howes S1127 describes the book as the "first printing of Smith's own account of his entrance into the fur trade in 1822, his journey up the Missouri to the Rockies, his trip to Salt Lake and across the Mojave desert and up the Sacramento in 1827-8."
Heading: (Fine Arts Press)Place Published: Santa Ana, CA
Publisher: Fine Arts Press
Date Published: 1934
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Light soiling and shelf wear, spine slightly darkened; very good or better.
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