The Fur Hunters of the Far West
Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, (1956). First Thus. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Tall 8vo. Pp. xxiii, 304. Introduction by Kenneth Spaulding. Illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of historical depictions of the West. Index. Bound in light blue cloth with silver decoration stamped on front board, silver lettering on spine. Fore-edges of pp. 229-240 crimped. In the pictorial dust jacket that shows light rubbing along fold between spine and rear panel, else bright and fresh with $5.00 intact on front flap. Very Good / Very Good+. Item #6192 Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
An employee of a succession of fur companies, including the Astor's Pacific Fur Company, then the North West Company and then the Hudson's Bay Company following their merger with his former employer, Ross was an intrepid Western trailblazer, as evinced by his establishment of Fort Okanogan, far up the Columbia, while stationed at Fort Astoria, at the mouth of the mighty river. More important, he was literate: this and his Adventures Of The First Settlers on the Oregon were among the very few first-person histories of the initial settlements in the Pacific Northwest.
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