Old Forts And Trading Posts Of The West. Bent's Old Fort And Bent's New Fort On The Arkansas River.

NOLIE MUMEY

Publication: Artcraft Press, 1956, Denver

First edition. 8vo. Edition limited to five hundred numbered and signed copies. This copy is unnumbered, Laid-in is a typed and signed letter on John J. Lipsey, Rare Books stationery dated August 27, 1952 that discusses the forthcoming publication of this book title. Original cloth with titles and decorations stamped in gold gilt on the front cover and spine, [20], 239 pp., frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, plates, portraits, ground plan, map, terminology of the fur trade, index. The fur trade and early trading posts that were run for profit by private individuals. Some of these forts were short-lived and of minor importance; others existed throughout the entire fur trade era, and later served as military posts and supply bases for the emigrants who traveled over the plains into new, uninhabited country. A fine, fresh, unread copy in a lightly used dust jacket