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BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 317 pgs, folding map frontis, illustrations, text map, index. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt title spine. Limited to 520 copies. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Minor shelf rubbing, else near fine. Interior has inked name of former owner (Alexander C. Roberts, Spokane, Wash, 7 Sep 1922) and newspaper article pasted on front endpaper related to the San Juan Bautista Mission with staining migrating to opposite page. Else interior is clean and tight. CONTENTS DESCRIPTION: Well known fur trade narrative; discussed by superior minds than mine in the various references on the fur trade, overland exploration, and California. The first edition, of which I long ago gave up trying to get, is virtually unobtainable for mortals. I made note of one being sold at auction in 1996 realizing nearly $40k. This book, along with one or two others, first took me on a 50-year quest for collecting fur trade books and related bibliographic information. Supremely important for me and, of course, the larger field of historic Western personal narratives and contemporary accounts. This particular copy is in very nice collector's condition. The former owner was the grandson of the fur trader, Alexander Culbertson, famed participant in the trade on the Upper Missouri. REFERENCES: Howes L264; Wagner/Camp 75 (note); Graff 2461; Rader 2217; Zamorano Eighty #50. Seller Inventory # 1121014
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