The West Of William H. Ashley, The International Struggle For The Fur Trade Of The Missouri, The Rocky Mountains, And The Columbia, With Explorations Beyond The Continental Divide, Recorded In The Diaries And Letters Of William H. Ashley And His Contemporaries 1822-1838

DALE (EDITOR). MORGAN

Publication: The Old West Publishing Co, 1964, Denver

First Edition. Limited to 250 copies. This copy designated "Presentation Copy" and signed by Lawton Kennedy, the publisher and Dale Morgan. Half calf and tan buckram, 341 pp., illustrations, 3 maps (large folding map). Beautiful color plates by Charles Bodmer. "Morgan considered this volume, the fruit of two decades of research, his most important single historical work. It is primarily an edited compilation of primary sources relating to Ashley's Missouri Fur Company and his activities in the beaver trade after selling out to Jedediah Smith, David E. Jackson, and William L. Sublette, and before his death in 1838. Scores of letters, accounts, diaries, and newspaper transcripts are salted liberally with Morgan's able commentary and historical notes."--Eloquence From A Silent World 49 & 68. Ex-Library copy, with stamp of the "Northern Natural Gas Company Collection, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska" and blind-stamp imprint of "Society Of Liberal Arts, Joslyn Art Museum Library, Omaha", with Withdrawn stamped over blind-stamp; in bottom fore-corner of the title page. Associated presentation inscription by Dale Morgan on front free-endpaper: "For the Northern Natural Gas Company and the Joslyn Art Museum, with a salute to John F. Merrian and to Eugene Kingman, who together brought to Omaha the Maximillian-Bodmer Collection." Signed by Dale L. Morgan. A fine bright copy in original slipcase. Highly recommended.