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Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West

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Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West

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Author: Morgan, Dale & Carl I. Wheat
Title: Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:California Historical Society
Date Published: 1954
Description:

[6], 86 pp. Intro. by Wheat. Illustrated with reproductions of 7 maps (6 folding, 3 inserted loose in rear pocket). (Folio) original red cloth, gilt lettered spine. One of 530 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. First Edition.

Original prospectus laid in. Scholarly study of the influence of "the early West's greatest single explorer" on the mapping of the West. Smith was the first man to cross the Sierra Nevada and open the southwestern trail to California. He also pioneered the route from California to the Hudson's Bay Co. territory, established posts on the Columbia and mapped watersheds of the Missouri, Yellowstone, Platte, Rio Grande, Colorado, Snake and Columbia rivers.

Condition

Light wear to cloth with faint toning at top edge, mild rubbing to extremities; interior and maps fine.

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Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West

Name: Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West
SKU: 89706280
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