Dale, Harrison Clifford

The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829

Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918. First Edition. 352pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with title and rules gilt stamped on backstrip. Top edge gilt. Very good. Name in ink at head of front free endsheet. Fold-out map present. Item #7905

The first publication of these accounts served in large part to rescue Jedediah Smith from obscurity. Later treatments by Sullivan, Morgan and others have lifted his reputation to equal status with the other major fur trade figures of the early nineteenth century. This book is one of the basic works of the fur trade history. Clark & Brunet 63. Howes D21. Paher 527. Mattes 6. Radar 1040. Wagner/Camp 34.

Price: $150.00