Three Thousand Miles through the Rocky Mountains
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. First Edition. 456pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Brown cloth with the title gilt stamped on the front board. Very good. Complete with all three plates. Item #9987
Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet. This work recounts a trip across the plains and Continental Divide into Wyoming, Idaho, Utah - with a great description of Utah and the Mormons (p.149-188) - and Montana - with description of the mines, the Bloody Bozeman, and the Montana Vigilantes - a nice western travel narrative. Alexander Kelly McClure (1828-1909) worked as a newspaper publisher and a lawyer, and was active in Republican politics. In the 1860s he invested in western mining, and as a representative of the Philadelphia-based Montana Gold and Silver Mining Company, he traveled and worked as superintendent of the mill that was built with company funds on the Oro Cache vein in Montana Territory. Auerbach 111:338. Flake/Draper 5122. Graff 2576. Howes M49. Six-Guns 1392.
Price: $400.00