Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography by Vestal, Stanley (Pseudonym of Walter Stanley Campbell)

University of Nebraska Press, 1974. brown with tan/red/& white ltrs, corners and edges are nicked, covers rubbed, 333 pages including maps and index. Western biography. 5th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A.: University of Nebeska Press - Bison, 1970. 8th Printing . Trade Paperback. Good. 5 1/2" x 8. 333 Pages Indexed. May 1970 Edition. Front cover has some creases one of which is full length top to bottom.Some soiling to front endpapers. Store stamp inside back cover. No other marks or stamps to this tight book with white pages. Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. Fur trapper and Indian fighter extraordinary, he was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He could not write his own name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla, steered by that stalwart, Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific; and, as one of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he became the most… Read More

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1971. Trade Paper. 0803257201 . Third softcover printing of work which was first written in 1946. In a clean copy but with prev. owner's inked name on title page. Textblock firm, covers rubbed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 333 pages .

Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. G/none, used, brown colored illustrated stiff paper wraps, vii-x, 333pp. Interior clean except for penciled notations on the half title page, binding tight. Shelf rubbing to wraps, corners slightly rounded, wear to head and tail of the spine, no chips..

Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1970. Paperback. New. 333 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

Univ of Nebraska Pr, 1970. Paperback. New. 333 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970. reprint. Nice copy. octavo.. stiff wrappers 334pp., maps, bibliog., index,

Armed Services Editions. New York: Editions For The Armed Services. , 1946. 1199 good, damp marks paperback,

Nebraska: Bison Books. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. 0803257201 . Fine in wraps. ; 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.8 inches; 333 pages .

NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1946), first edition thus, wrappers. Softcover.. No. 1199 in this important series, a biography of this fur-trapper/Indian fighter/frontiersman, note about the author at the end, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, this is in the very scarce upright/vertical format. Solid very good.