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Illustrated with 8 plates from engravings, paintings, photographs, etc.; double-page map. Half cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt, modern custom slipcase. No. 30 of 100 copies. First Edition. Scarce thus.

Signed by Hafen & Ghent on limitation page. The first publication of the press. Prospectus laid in. Fitzpatrick was with Ashley on his second voyage up the Missouri, and was one of the small party which, in March of 1824, made the effective discovery of South Pass. He remained in the West for the next thirty years, as fur trader, trapper, scout, and mountain man, and witnessed the establishment, growth and decline of the fur trade era, and the coming of civilization. Howes H10.