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Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains... Performed in the Years 1835, '36, and '37... With a Map of Oregon Territory

Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains... Performed in the Years 1835, '36, and '37... With a Map of Oregon Territory

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Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains... Performed in the Years 1835, '36, and '37... With a Map of Oregon Territory

by PARKER, Samuel

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Ithaca: Published by the Author, 1838. 8vo. 371 pp. Folding frontispiece map, 15 3/4 x 22 inches. Original diapered cloth, gilt-lettered leather spine label. Hinges worn and spine faded, but a very good copy in original condition. Provenance: Henry Selden Weller (booklabel); Carl R. Bogardus (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. First hand observations of the fur trade during its heyday. "Parker accompanied a fur-trading party, in 1835, from Council Bluffs to Walla Walla" (Graff). The map is the "earliest map of the Oregon interior with a pretense of accuracy." Wheat states that the map "represented a real advance, and it was made from personal observations." Field 1175; Forbes, Hawaii 1120; Graff 3194; Howes P89 ("aa"); Rader 2600n; Sabin 58729; Smith 7896; Tweney 60; Streeter sale IV:2093; Wagner-Camp-Becker 70:4; Wheat, Transmississippi Map 438.

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Title
Journal of an Exploring Tour Beyond the Rocky Mountains... Performed in the Years 1835, '36, and '37... With a Map of Oregon Territory
Author
PARKER, Samuel
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Published by the Author
Place of Publication
Ithaca
Date Published
1838
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