Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains by J.C. Fremont

Narrative of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
In the year 1842 and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44

Brevet Captain J.C. Fremont

D. Appleton & Company, 1846

Hardcover dark brown stamped cloth. No DJ. 186pp. including tables, plus 14-pp ads in the rear. Text in two columns. 8vo. Previous owner's name on FEP. Text block is foxed and toned throughout. Cover is bumped with tears on top and bottom of spine. A popular printing of the reports of the first and second Fremont expeditions, a highly influential diary of Western Americana. In various editions this report was more widely read than any other account of the West before the Gold Rush, and had a profound effect on the routes frequented during the great period of emigration. Clean and sound.