The Far West And Rockies, 1820-1875: A Series Of Historical Documents, Letters, Diaries, Personal Accounts Of Trappers, Goldseekers And Military Men, And Original Narratives Of Travel, Adventure And Exploration In The Rocky Mountain West And The Pacific Coast.

HAFEN, LEROY R. & ANN W. HAFEN

Publication: The Arthur H Clark Co, 1954-1961, Glendale

All First Editions. 15 Volumes. Green Cloth. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. "Edited with Historical and Geographical additions, Introductions, Annotations, Bibliographical Notes and Extensive Analytical Index, by LeRoy R. Hafen, Ph.D.,List.D. and Ann W. Hafen". AHC#104--"Containing rare documents and journals dealing with the opening of the Rocky Mountain West, this series received immediate acclaim from both the academic and general audience. The team work of both Hafens and Arthur H. Clark Jr., production editor and designer of the series, produced a work of enduring quality and scholarship." Volume I: Old Spanish Trail. Santa Fe to Los Angeles: With Extracts From Contemporary Records and Including Diaries of Antonio Armijo and Orville Pratt, 1954. Cloth, 377 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, index. Volume II: Journals of Forty-Niners; Salt Lake to Los Angeles: With Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and others, 1954. Cloth, 333 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, index. Volume III: To the Rockies and Oregon, 1839-1842: With Diaries and Accounts by Sidney Smith, Amos Cook, Joseph Holman, E. Willard Smith, Francis Fletcher, Joseph Williams, Obadiah Oakley, Robert Shortess, T.J. Farnham, 1955. Cloth, 315 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, index. Volume IV: SAGE, RUFUS B. - Rufus B. Sage: His Letters and Papers, 1836-1847, With an Annotated Reprint of His "Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies". Two Volumes. Volume I, 1956. Cloth, 353pp., illustrations, maps, portraits. Volume V: [same title as Volume IV], Volume II, 1956. Cloth, 361 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, index. Volume VI: BELL, JOHN R. - The Journal of Captain John R. Bell, Official Journalist for the Stephen H. Long Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1957. Cloth, 349 pp., illustrations, maps, portraits, ads., index. Volume VII: HEAP, GWINN HARRIS - Central Route to the Pacific: With Related Material on Railroad Explorations and Indian Affairs by Edward F. Beale, Thomas H. Benton. Kit Carson, and Col. E. A. Hitchcock, 1957. Cloth, 346 pp., illustrations, maps, plates, portraits, index. Volume VIII: HAFEN, LEROY R. The Utah Expedition 1857-1858. A Documentary Account of the United States Military Movement Under Colonel Albert Sidney Johnston, and The Resistance by Brigham Young and the Mormon Nauvoo Legion, 1958. Cloth, 375 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, index. Volume IX: Relations With The Indians of the Plains, 1857-1861. A Documentary Account of the Military Campaigns, and Negotiations of Indian Agents--- with Reports and Journals of P. G. Lowe, R. M. Peck, J. E. B. Stuart, S. D. Sturgis, and Other Official Papers, 1959. Cloth, 310 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, map, index. Volume X: The Diaries of William Henry Jackson Frontier Photographer, 1959. Cloth, 345 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, map, index. Volume XI: Fremont's Fourth Expedition. A Documentary Account of The Disaster of 1848-1849, With Diaries, Letters, and Reports by Participants in the Tragedy, 1960. Cloth, 319 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, map, index. Volume XII: Powder River Campaigns and Sawyers Expedition of 1865. A Documentary Account Comprising Official Reports, Diaries, Contemporary Newspaper Accounts, and Personal Narratives, 1961. Cloth, 386 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, maps, index. Volume XIII: Reports From Colorado, The Wildman Letters 1859-1865, With Other Related Letters and Newspaper Reports, 1859, 1961. Cloth, 333 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, map, index. Volume XIV: Handcarts To Zion, the Story of A Unique Western Migration 1856-1860, with Contemporary Journals, Accounts, Reports; and Rosters of Members of the Ten Handcart Companies, 1960. Cloth, 328 pp., illustrations, plates, portraits, appendices, index. Volume XV: The Far West and Rockies. General Analytical Index to the Fifteen Volume Series and Supplement to the Journals of Forty-Niners, Salt Lake to Los Angeles, 1961. Cloth,360 pp., index to the series. All volumes in near fine or fine condition. Original Prospectus laid-in. Additional promotional brochure regarding the new series, with particular emphasis on information by and about LeRoy and Ann Hafen, also laid-in.

Inventory Number: 50975