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According to bibliographer George Tweney: "The Coues edition described here is an entirely new and original work printed from the original manuscript and contains the author's daily journals of travels, explorations, and adventures in the fur trade throughout the Northwest. This set is considered by historians to be the most important contribution to Western history and exploration published in the twentieth century [sic]." Howes H419; Smith 4350; Tweney 9. Bookplates of historian Henry Raup Wagner and of the Bancroft Library (marked withdrawn, 10/99), small stamp on the rear endpaper of the Huntington Library.