The Columbia River; or, Scenes and Adventures During a Residence of Six Years on the Western Side of the Rocky Mountains, among Various Tribes of Indians Hitherto Unknown: Together with a Journey Across the American Continent
COX, Ross
Published by Henry Coburn and Richard Bentley, London, 1832
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Complete 2-volume set. 8vo. Quarter calf with raised bands and gilt spine lettering/decorations, and polished marbled paper over boards. xx, 333pp; vi, 350pp. Marbled page edges. Single small map (Volume II, p. 72). Very good. Mild binding wear, mainly to calf corners, else tight and internally fine and bright; shelf number ("76") blue-pencilled on green front pastedown of each volume. Handsome second U.K. edition (first published 1831) of this important source on early Oregon, the fur trade industry and the Native American tribes of the Northwest. Irishman Cox (1793-1853) clerked for the Pacific Fur Company (later North West Company) and located to Fort Astoria in 1812, traveling back East in 1817 via the Columbia River, crossing the Rocky Mountains then overland through Canada. Cox became the first white person to pick up the trail where Lewis and Clark left off. Thomas W. Field describes this as "full of adventure, history, and character." BRADFORD 1097. FIELD 376. GRAFF 893. HOWES C 822. SABIN 17267. WAGNER-CAMP 43. Seller Inventory # 52141
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Title: The Columbia River; or, Scenes and ...
Publisher: Henry Coburn and Richard Bentley, London
Publication Date: 1832
Binding: Hardcover