The Valley Of The Upper Yellowstone, An Exploration Of The Headwaters Of The Yellowstone River In The Year 1869

COOK, CHARLES W., DAVID E. FOLSOM, AND WILLIAM PETERSON [AS RECORDED BY]. [EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUBREY L. HAINES]

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Light blue cloth and dark blue spine, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, xxxii, 79 [1] pp., preface, acknowledgments, introduction, illustrated from photographs, portraits, maps, on fold-out map, biographical notes, sources, index. Here was launched (1869) the first definitive exploration of Yellowstone. Haines has integrated Folsom's 1870 Western Monthly report with reminiscences by Langford in 1834, Peterson in 1900, and Cook & Folsom in 1922. Fine, bright copy in price-clipped and lightly rubbed dust jacket with light to minor wear to the spine ends and corners.