Across the Wide Missouri: With an account of the discovery of the Miller Collection by Mae Reed Porter
by De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955. Miller, Alfred Jacob
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine copy in very good(+) jacket./very good
- Seller
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Oakland, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston; Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin; Riverside Press. Hardcover. Fine copy in very good(+) jacket./very good. Large octavo in tan cloth and color pictorial, unclipped dust jacket; 483 pages, [48] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.; jacket with a few small chips along the top edge and some light flaking at open corners/flap folds; jacket now protected in mylar; cloth is clean and free of frying and fraying; boards are free of bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks, creases and foxing; edges of leaves are clean; binding is tight and square; a gently loved copy of this classic. In English. || Contents: The prairie traveler (1833) -- The brass knuckles (1832) -- Massacre : sport and business (1832) -- Paul Bunyan's fair (1833) -- Absaroka (1833) -- The theme of wonder (1833-1834) -- The winter lodge -- To men benighted (1834) -- Parable of the Samaritan (1835) -- The Meridian Passage (1836) -- The conqueror (1837) -- A painter on the trail (1837) -- Away, you rolling river (1838) -- Appendices: Chronology of the mountain fur trade -- The first illustrators of the west -- Notes.
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- Bookseller
- Bibliope by Calvello Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86481
- Title
- Across the Wide Missouri: With an account of the discovery of the Miller Collection by Mae Reed Porter
- Author
- De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955. Miller, Alfred Jacob
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine copy in very good(+) jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin; Riverside Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston; Cambridge
- Keywords
- Fur trade -- West (U.S.), History
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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About Bibliope by Calvello Books
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