Four Years in the Rockies or, the Adventures of Isaac P. Rose, of Shenango Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; Giving His Experiences as a Hunter and Trapper in that Remote Region...Also Including His Skirmishes and Battles with the Indians--His Capture, Adoption, and Escape--Being One of the Most Thrilling Narratives Ever Published
New Castle, PA: W.B. Thomas, 1884.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 7.5" x 5", 262 pp, with frontis portrait of Rose, in original blue cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Insect nibbling to cloth, short note in ink on verso of frontispiece, otherwise clean and sound. Rose was a member Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth's 1834 expedition to the Oregon Territory, which was intended to establish fur-trading post, a salmon fishery, and lumbering and agricultural activities in the Pacific Northwest. He was captured and briefly adopted by the Crow Indians, but managed to escape. Streeter (2115) calls this "An important addition to the stories of the Wyeth expedition in the history of the early days of the fur trade." Howes (M-306) notes that Rose "trapped with all the famous mountain men, Bridger, Carson, Meek, Sublette, et al." Graff 2688; Smith 6536.
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