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[6], iv, 521, [1] + [12] ad pp. 59 black and white plates, including frontispiece portrait; numerous text illustrations; fold-out map (boundaries outlined in red & green). (8vo) 7¼x5, original gray cloth, lettered in red on cover and spine, pictorial cover label. Third Edition.

First printed in 1863 with the title "Notes by the Way" and reprinted again in 1872. This third edition was greatly enlarged by the author's nephew and namesake, and also with the addition of plates and a map (including plate captioned "Variegated Buttes," which, per Howes and Mintz, is omitted from many copies). Per Soliday, "A well-written and detailed account of an overland journey from St. Joseph, Mo., to Olympia, Wash., in 1862." Mintz observes, "This is a detailed narrative to the Northwest part of the nation via South Pass. The author went from Ft. Laramie by way of the Lander cutoff through what is now Wyoming and over the Mullan Road to the Columbia. Hewitt's journal is one of the few printed of an 1862 crossing." Graff 1875; Howes H447; Mattes 1845; Mintz 222; Smith 4393.