Jedediah Smith And The Opening Of The West

DALE MORGAN

Publication: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953, Indianapolis

First Edition. First Issue. Green Cloth, 458pp., illus. Map on endpapers. "...one of the most important books on the Mountain Men ever written. Scholarly and informative, it is the best of several books on the greatest Mountain Man of all: Jed Smith."--C.E. Cazedussus II. "...the most scholarly work on Smith...Morgan's excellent notes give many sidelights on fur trade and exploration."--Jack Rittenhouse. A classic work and perhaps the best fur trade biography ever written. Fine copy in dust jacket with light wear to head of spine and lightly soiled on white rear cover.