Search Results: Americana-Old West from Rendezvous Books & Art

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The marvelous adventures of one of America's most interesting explorers. In 1832 he left Missouri with 110 men and 20 wagons to go westward from Fort Osage to the beaver-trapping grounds of the Rocky Mountains. Three years later, the group returned. He lived among the Nez Perces and other Inidans, made maps, kept notes, and took two hazardous trips into the territory of the Hundson's Bay Company. He was spy for the U.S. Govt.

Beautiful copy in mylar protection. First Edition, First Printing.. Hardcover. 4to. 160pp. Tight. No names, nomarkings. Fine in Fine, unclipped d/j.

excellent, slight stain on page-ends.

32 pages, photo of original manuscript of U.S. Army Report of the Exploring Expedition from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to the Junction of the Grand and Green Rivers of the great Colorado of the West with appropriate illustrations and maps.

Octavo.. Illustrated. Important reference work. Excellent condition. .

perfect copy

strong binding, esp for its age. some light foxing, light water marks on a few pages.

Signed by author. Beautiful copy.

unabridged and unaltered reprint of the 1st edition which was published by Houghton Mifflin Comapny in 1956. Fine condition. Inscribed by author, "For Awf, Your Friend, Oliver La"

red cloth w/gold lettering.

UNREAD

175 pages with 7 maps and index. Octavo (9 1/2" x6 1/2") issued in gray cloth with silver lettering to spine. First edition.The frontier of the Far Southwest was on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in the mid-eighteenth century. Spain viewed this perimeter as the outermost bastion of New Spain.

dj has edgewear, rough, but complete and whole, some rubbing as shown in photo, flaps glued down to inside book cover. Interior book is very nice, clean. Some tanning and library stamp on inside front and back cover.

The Companion Volume to the Fox News Series.

includess Colophon; 1 scratch on front cover

Excellent copy with no marks, no writing. Clean in all directions.

unread. Paperback reprint of 1932, Carey & Hart. Suitable for gift.

includes note from secretary
Spanish Expeditions Into Colorado
Archaeological Research in Northeastern San Juan Basin of Colorado, Summer of 1922; drawings
My Experiences in the First Colorado Regiment by R.B. Wallace
The Grave of Chief Ouray; Florence Whitter, photos

very nice with some edgewear, no writing or marks.