LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. A DIARY OF WANDERINGS ON THE SOURCES OF THE RIVERS MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, AND COLORADO 1830-1835, WITH SUPPLEMENTAL WRITINGS AND A DETAILED MAP OF THE FUR COUNTRY

FERRIS, WARREN ANGUS

Published by Old West Publishing Company, 1983., Denver, 1983

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Revised reprint. First Thus. 8vo. Cloth, 444pp., illus., facsimiles, 2 maps (1 large folding map), index. Edited, and with an Introduction and Notes by LeRoy R. Hafen. With a Biography of Ferris by Paul C. Phillips. A diary of the wanderings on the sources of the rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835. "This is a top notch first hand account by a literate mountain man who went west in 1830 and visited the Yellowstone region.---Camille E. Cazedessus II. "First full length description of the Yellowstone region."---Wright Howes. A truly outstanding narrative of trapping and trading in the Rocky Mountains in the 1830's which originally appeared serially in "The Western Literary Messenger" in the 1840's. The "Map of the Fur Country" was drawn by Ferris in 1836, and is an important map of the period. As New in transparent dust jacket, as issued. An excellent work.

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• Title: LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. A DIARY OF WANDERINGS ON THE SOURCES OF THE RIVERS MISSOURI, COLUMBIA, AND COLORADO 1830-1835, WITH SUPPLEMENTAL WRITINGS AND A DETAILED MAP OF THE FUR COUNTRY
• Publisher: Old West Publishing Company, 1983., Denver
• Publication Date: 1983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included