Across The Wide Missouri

BERNARD DEVOTO

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1947, Boston

First Edition. 8vo. Limited to 265 Signed copies in Original Slipcase, as issued. This is copy #253. Red Cloth, with beveled edges, teg, Maps on front and rear endpapers, xxvii [blank], 483 pp., Acknowledgments, Preface, Foreword, Numerous Illustrations by Alfred Jacob Miller, Charles Bodmer, and George Catlin [many in color], Notes, Index. A classic work on the mountain men, with focus on the period of 1833-1838. Relates much on the adventures of Capt. Bonneville, Nathaniel Wyeth, and William Drummond Stewart. The illustrations provide a look at the only paintings of Rocky Mountain trappers actually made on the spot and the first paintings ever made of the Rocky Mountains, published here for the first time. Well-researched, excellent work. Highly recommended. Fine, bright copy in original slipcase, as issued. Slipcase is rubbed with modest wear at the extremities, but in solid very good condition. An attractive copy.