Personal Recollections of Pioneer Life on the Mountains and Plains of the Great West.

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8vo., (8 2/8 x 5 4/8 inches). Portrait of Voorhees. Original yellow cloth, ruled, decorated and lettered in black (front hinge cracked). Provenance: Presentation inscription from the author to his friend John Charles Thompson on the front free endpaper. Of extraordinary interest to the early history of the American West is the appendix, which occupies nearly half the book, and tells the story of how the author's family came into possession of important manuscripts written by Lewis and Clark, several of which are reprinted here, and which include "four red morocco note-books, written up in St. Louis after the return of the expedition, and similar to those of in the collection of the American Philosophical Society; .There is also one of Clark's pocket field-books, . amply illustrated by about twenty sketch-maps of the trail over the mountains." (page 56). N° de ref. del artículo 001449

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