Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Company, 1925. Limited Edition. 546pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Brown grained cloth with embossed portrait of Bridger on the front board and the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Top edge gilt. Better than very good. Signed and numbered by the author on..... More
Pierre, SD: Lawrence K. Fox - Superintendent, Department of History, State of South Dakota, 1932. 458pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. In 1834 Francis A. Chardon was appointed main trader at Fort Clark, a post of the American..... More
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974. First Edition. 222pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Red cloth with the title and bands gilt on the backstrip. Both the book and jacket are better than very good. This is volume 64 in the 'American Exploration and Travel Series.'. Born in 1790 in Canada, Peter..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1965. 2 volume set. 1027pp. Octavos [23.5 cm] Burgundy cloth with the titles gilt on the backstrips. Both volumes near fine in like slipcase with paper printed label. Complete with maps in pocket at the rear of vol. II. Volume I: The Red River of..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1967. First Edition. 144pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Near fine/Near fine. A juvenile edition of Greenwood's biography compiled from Dale Morgan and Charles Kelly's book, and printed by the same press. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in..... More
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962. First Edition. 320pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Rust colored cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Jacket is price clipped. "Kit Carson's life story is, in essence, the story of the West as that region developed over the first three quarters of the nineteenth century. As such..... More
Fairfield: Ye Galleon Press, 1978. First Edition. 328pp. Quarto [28 cm] Brown grained buckram with the title gilt stamped on the front board and backstrip. Better than very good. "King of Old Oregon, Emperor of the West, King of the Columbia, Great White Eagle, Savior of Oregon, Founder of Oregon..... More
Minneapolis: Ross & Haines, Incorporated, 1958. 317pp. Octavo [22 cm] Rust cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Very good/Very good. Jacket shows gentle sunning to the spine and head. old-out map endsheet present and in nice condition. "Sergeant Patrick Gass wrote the first book concerning this Expedition..... More
London: The Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1967. First Edition. 368pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black cloth. Near fine/Near fine. Volume XXVI in Hudson's Bay Record Society series. Fold-out map present at the rear. This edition was issued only to subscribers to the Hudson's Bay Record Society, this copy is numbered 1596..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Revised Edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Near fine/Near fine. The printing of this book was limited to 750 copies, this is copy 83. Caleb Greenwood was a giant figure in the early West. From his early..... More
Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965. Signed limited edition. 361pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Green cloth with the title gilt stamped on the spine. Housed in a double slipcase covered in red and green cloth. Paper label on green slipcase. Book in fine condition with the slipcases showing minor rubbing at the..... More
San Francisco: California Historical Society, 1954. First Edition. 86pp. Folio [ ] Red cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Better than very good. Gentle sunning to the backstrip with a bookplate on the front pastedown. Complete with all seven maps. The four page prospectus is laid in..... More
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1970, 1976, 1976. First Edition. Three volume set. 288, 294pp Octavos [23 cm] Brown cloth. The text volumes are near fine in like jackets - the map [102 cm x 84 cm] volume is near fine. - 'A Scientist on the Mississippi Headwaters With Notes on..... More
London: Hudson's Bay Record Society, 1961. First Edition. 255pp. Octavo [24.5 cm] Black cloth with the title gilt stamped on the backstrip. Near fine. Both maps present in the rear pocket. The Hudson's Bay Record Society Publications, Volume XXIII. Ogden's expedition of 1826-27 traveled through the Klamath country, a part..... More
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1938. First Edition. 90pp. Quarto [27 cm] 1/2 brown cloth over blue boards. Title in white on front board and on a label on the backstrip. Volume is fine. Age toning to publisher's glassine jacket. Historical Documents Institut Francais de Washington Cahier XI (11)..... More
Vancouver, BC: Mitchell Press Limited, 1963. First Edition. 413pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Orange cloth. Very good/Very good. Jacket price clipped. "No history of British Columbia of the United States Northwest would be complete without mention of Dr. William Fraser Tolmie who came to the Oregon Country in 1833 and lived..... More
New Haven: Yale University Library, 1955. 103pp. Duodecimo [18 cm] 1/2 tan cloth over burgundy boards housed in matching burgundy slipcase. Complete with all three folding maps that are housed in a matched envelope that fits with the book in the slipcase. Better than very good. Bookplate on the front..... More
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1979. First Edition. 237pp. Octavo [24 cm] Black cloth with the title on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. "This study adopts a new synthesis incorporating an interdisciplinary approach, regarding the physical, biological and cultural environments of the fur trade." - from the jacket. More