38 pp, With 2 folding engraved maps. (8vo) 22.5x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), original blue printed wrappers, custom half morocco slipcase & chemise. 24th Congress, 1st Session, Senate Document 209. First Edition.
Scarce report, especially so in the original wrappers, of this report in the form of a journal by Lt. Gaines P. Kingsbury of this important expedition to the Rocky Mountains during the heyday of the fur trade, and early expansion into the west.. The work is sometimes listed under Dodge. As Wagner-Camp relates, "The expedition left Fort Leavenworth on May 29, 1835, proceeding up the South Platte River to the Rocky Mountains, thence to Fountain Creek and Bent's Fort; they returned down the Arkansas River to the Santa Fe Trail and back to Fort Leavenworth, arriving there on September 16. The detachment visited the Omaha, Pawnee, Arikara, and other tribes in the upper Platte and Arkansas rivers during a march of sixteen hundred miles..." The two significant maps are "Map Showing the Lands Assigned to Emigrant Indians West of Arkansas & Missouri," with large A in one corner (47x45.2 cm) (Wheat 418, listed under Hood); and an untitled map with the legend "Western Territory" showing the "Route of the Dragoons under the command of Col. Dodge in 1835" with a large B in one corner (50x89 cm) (Wheat 421, listed under Steen). This is the Streeter copy., with his small oval TWS bookplate in the inside of the rear wrapper. Inkstamp of Milton W. Smith, Portland, Oregon, to front wrapper, top of 1st page of text, and back of the smaller map.
Provenance: Streeter Auction 10/24-25/67
References: Howes K-161; Wagner-Camp 63; Graff 2335. Streeter 1799 [this copy]. Wheat Transmississippi 418 & 421 for maps.
Condition:
Edge wear to wrappers, signature eradicated from front wrapper; text leaves with corners bent, some light foxing, large map with short stub tear repaired on verso; very good, rare in the original wrappers.