Morgan, Dale

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1953.

First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. First printing. 458 pp, indexed, in original blue cloth binding. Upper corners bumped, else a fine copy, in a clean, priced dust jacket with very slight rubbing to corners. Rittenhouse 425: "Acknowledged as the most scholarly work on Smith, who met his death on the Cimmaron section of the [Santa Fe] Trail in 1831....Morgan's excellent notes give many sidelights on fur trade and exploration."

Item #23161

Price: $70.00