The Ashley-Smith Explorations And The Discovery Of A Central Route To The Pacific 1822-1829

DALE, HARRISON C. [EDITOR]

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Co, 1918, Cleveland

First edition. Red Cloth, 352 pp., preface. Introduction. Bibliography. Index. 2 maps. This book is one of the basic works in fur trade history. The expeditions of Ashley and Smith are but two divisions of one enterprise, the discovery and utilization of a central route to the Pacific by way of the Platte, the Interior Basin, and the Colorado River. This work consists of an historic overview of the fur trade to 1822, the Wm. H. Ashley narrative, the Jedediah Smith narrative, and 2 journals by Harrison G. Rogers. Zamorano Eighty #25: "The source-book of Jedediah Strong Smith, trapper and trader, and the first white man to enter California overland from the eastern United States. Contains the journal of Harrison Rogers, who accompanies Smith to California in 1826, several letters and reports by Smith, etc." "This first publication of these accounts served in large part to rescue Jedediah Smith from obscurity. Later treatments by Sullivan, Morgan and others have lifted his reputation to equal status with the other major fur trade figures of the early nineteenth century. This book is one of the basic works in fur trade history."--Clark/Brunet 55. Very slightly sunned on spine, else a clean, near fine copy. Protected in slipcase.

Inventory Number: 51978