Item #12737 Travels in the Far Northwest 1839-1846 1. Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory. Thomas J. Pierre Jean DE SMET FARNHAM, S. J, and, Reuben Gold Thwaites.
Travels in the Far Northwest 1839-1846 1. Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory
Travels in the Far Northwest 1839-1846 1. Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory

Travels in the Far Northwest 1839-1846 1. Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906. First Thus. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 380, plus several pages of publishers' advertisements at rear. Preface by the editor, Reuben Gold Thwaites. Bookplate on front pastedown. Bound in burgundy-colored cloth; spine lettered in gilt. Front hinge starting, else a bright, sturdy copy with sharp corners. Very Good+. Item #12737

Volume 28, being volume I of the two-volume set, in the publisher's famed series "Early Western Travels 1748 - 1846." Farnham was leader of a group of emigrants who arrived at the Whitman Mission in September, 1839. Tweney describe's Farnham's book as "the best account of the first overland-to-Oregon migration of settlers." TWENEY, 20; SMITH, 3004.

Price: $125.00

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