PRAIRIE & MOUNTAIN SKETCHES by Field, Matthew C - 1957

Norman: U. Of Ok., 1957. D.j., 239 pp., illus., index. Field's account of Sir William Drummond's "party of pleasure" in 1843 to the Rocky Mountains. Name inside cover. . 1st.. Cloth. Fine/Fine.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. liv, 239 pages. Field's on-the-spot account of Sir William Drummond Stewart's pleasure excursion that he led to the Rocky Mountains. A nice copy. Book has hint of wear to cover; small sticker on rear endpaper. DJ is lightly chipped at top/bottom of spine; wear to folds at flaps and spine; small tear on rear. Still looks nice in mylar. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Very Good-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard Cover.

The story of the first "party of pleasure to the rocky mountains" led by Sir William Drummond in 1843. Light brown cloth covered boards, frontispiece of Fort Laramie, maps and other illustrations. Very good + in VG+ dust jacket. Head and heel of spine no longer crisp, trace wear to bottom tips of boards, very light bump to top edge of front board. Dust jacket has light shelf wear with some rubbing to bottom edge of spine panel, 3 numbers in ink on bottom edge of front flap.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Good+. 8vo. Pp. liv, 239. Frontis. color reproduction of Alfred Jacob Miller painting. Illustrated with black & white photo reproduction plates, a two-page map and drawings in the text. Title page and section heads printed in brown. American Exploration and Travel Series Vol. 23. Tan cloth, titles and decorations printed in green on the spine, pale green topstain: lower corner bumped, leaves crisp and bright. In the color illustrated dust jacket repeating the frontis. painting, with publisher's catalog printed verso, price clipped: edges just a touch rubbed. From the diaries, letters and articles for the New Orleans Picayune of assistant editor Matt Field, invited by Sir William Drummond Stewart to join his 1843 pleasure trip to the Rocky Mountains. The 1837 Miller painting of Fort Laramie used on the jacket, rediscovered by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter, earlier appeared in Bernard DeVoto's Across the Wide… Read More

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. Octavo. Pictorial dust-jacket with similar recommendations on back face, author and subject description on front and back flaps. Original light brown cloth boards with lettering green design on spine. Edges trimmed. Half title included. Coloured frontispiece entitled "Fort Laramie." 24 further plates with B/W illustrations from paintings. 1 B/W map. Dust-jacket chipped and worn on covers and spine, with slight stain on back face. Cloth boards very well preserved. Fine condition. Matt Field's entertaining, personal account of the "party of pleasure to the Rocky Mountains" and ensuing adventures. 1957

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 239 pages .

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 239pp.incl.index&list; HB lt.brwn.w/green; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ blue w/white-pic.cover; rubbed w/some wear on corners; adverts inside. In the Spring of 1843, Sir William Drummond Stewart led a party of 20 gentlemen & 30 hunters, muleteers, & camp servants to the Wind River Mountains. Here is Matthew Field's on-the-spot account of the party's adventures in the early West. illus.&photos.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1957. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 239 pages; Price clipped dust jacket with minor rubbing and wear. .

FIELD, Matthew C. Prairie and Mountain Sketches. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, [1957]. 1st ed. Illus. liv, 239pp. Fine in d/j.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1957 First edition. Collected by Clyde and Mae Reed Porter. Edited by Kate L. Gregg & John Francis McDermott. liv, 239pp. Illustrated with sketches by the author and from watercolors by Alfred Jacob Miller; notes and index. Brown cloth decorated in dark green. A very fine copy with pictorial dust jacket (minor tear to upper edge of jacket). Field's firsthand account of a journey into the Rocky Mountains in 1843 under the leadership of Sir William Drummond Stewart. This was the first "party of pleasure to the Rocky Mountains" - an excursion of twenty gentlemen and thirty hunters, muleteers, and camp servants, with no other purpose than the fun of riding out hundreds of miles to the Wind River Mountains and the excitement of buffalo hunting. Field, a writer and assistant editor of the New Orleans Picayune, was invited to join the party. Here published in full for the first time and taken primarily from Fields' letters and diaries is his… Read More