Marcus Whitman Pathfinder and Patriot
Seattle: Alice Harriman Company, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Pp. 349. Frontis. illustration with printed tissue guard. With 22 illustrations. Appendices provide short biographies of those in Whitman's orbit. Bound in dark blue ribbed cloth with gilt lettering and rules on spine. No detracting qualities whatsoever. Dust jacket with shallow chips to head of spine. Fine / Near Fine. Item #486 Published two years after the death of the author, he had by then accepted some of the facts presented by Henry Spalding, in his Senate Document memorializing the Whitman-Saved-Oregon legend, as apocrypha. SOLIDAY I, 779. Dust jacket is now preserved in a clear, removable archival protector.
One of the freshest copies we've seen, owing to the superb utility of the dust jacket over the last 110+ years. Among the figures profiled in the rear of the book are Samuel Parker, Henry Harmon Spalding, William H. Gray, Asa Bowen Smith, Elkanah Walker, Cushing Eells, Cornelius Rogers, Edwin Oscar Hall, and Andrew Rogers.
Price: $60.00