Petition of Sundry Inhabitants of the State of Missouri, Upon the Subject of a Communication Between the Said State and the Internal Provinces of Mexico, With a Letter from Alphonso Wetmore, Upon the Same Subject
Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1825.
First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 18th Congress, 2d Session, Report 79. 9" x 5.5", 8 pp, stitched pamphlet in fine condition, in custom cloth chemise with leather spine label. Wagner Camp 20: "Wetmore's letter, dated Franklin, Missouri, August 19, 1824, describes the journey from Missouri to Santa Fe as easier than the routes either from Pennsylvania to Missouri or from Vera Cruz to Santa Fe. Wetmore asks that the Santa Fe trade be encouraged and protected, requesting that the road be surveyed and marked for the benefit of the trader. He tells of Becknal's opening of the trade in 1821 and its subsequent history, information credited largely to Col. Benjamin Cooper." Graff 2834; Rittenhouse 638.
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