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Mountain Man Narrative of Yosemite Discovery

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Title: Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836
Author: (Wagner, W.F.)
Description: 317 pp. Introduction by W.F. Wagner. Folding frontispiece map; facsimile of the original title-page; 2 portrait plates, sketch map of California missions and one other illustration. 9x6, blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. One of 520 copies, signed by Wagner. Second Edition.The earliest readily obtainable edition of the principal source of firsthand information concerning the California expedition of Joseph Reddeford Walker, of which the Rocky Mountain trapper Leonard was a member, during which the first non-Indians are believed to have gazed down upon the Yosemite Valley. The 1839 first edition is exceptionally rare. Cowan, p. 389; Currey & Kruska 235; Farquhar 1b; Howes L264; Zamarano Eighty 50.
Heading: Place Published: Cleveland
Publisher: Burrows Brothers
Date Published: 1904