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Hard cover , 8vo in cream decorated cloth blocked in pictorial design of black, brown and tan, presumed ex-library. xii, 374 pages, 18 unnumbered leaves of plates, with illustrations, a map, plans, and portraits, First Edition. CONDITION: Very Good. Some light marks to covers but generally very clean, spine a bit darkened, ghost of tape library label to foot of spine, top of text block shows foxing while other edges are clean. Inside, front hinge reglued. Remains of a large label to front pastedown. Text lightly age toned but clean and firm. **The New York-born Author George Bird Grinell (1849-1938), Yale-educated anthropologist, historian and naturalist fossil hunter, presents a popular, (rather than scholarly,)book about the struggles in settling the lands beyond the Mississippi in the first half of the nineteenth century. He writes about the fur trading posts along the Santa Fe Trail, the mania of the gold rush in Colorado and Montana, and the dangers and travails faced by westward travellers in days before the railroads. Some of his material is repurposed from other authors: George Ruxton's descriptions of Colorado's fur trading at Bent's Fort, for instance, and Louis Garrand's descriptions of living with the Cheyenne in 1846. Includes chapters on Kit Carson and General Stephen W. Kearny. Grinnel wrote extensively about the Cheyenne and Plains tribes indigenous people. After studies with the Audubon family, he travelled with Custer's 1874 Black Hill expedition as a naturalist, and was later was a founder of the Audubon Society. His conservation work was influential in the creation of the Glacier National Park. Ref.: Jack D. Rittenhouse, (1971), No. 259, p. 113. OCLC 2516580.
Ref: WEST 9097
$90.00