Washington. 1848. 132pp. plus twenty-four lithographed plates. Lacks the folding map. Later pebbled cloth, printed paper label. Scattered foxing. Three plates with small chips at edges, not affecting image. Good. One of the great southwestern government-sponsored explorations, here in its earliest form, according to Wagner-Camp. The lithographed plates, attributed to... More about REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF WAR, COMMUNICATING...A REPORT AND MAP OF THE EXAMINATION OF NEW...

London. 1836. x,[2],663pp. plus sixteen plates on India paper and folding map. Thick quarto. Modern three-quarter blue morocco and cloth, spine gilt. Minor rubbing, spine slightly sunned. Minor marginal foxing to plates. Very good. A large paper copy of this major source both in the early exploration of the Far... More about NARRATIVE OF THE ARCTIC LAND EXPEDITION TO THE MOUTH OF THE GREAT FISH RIVER, AND ALONG THE...

Edinburgh. 1848. [2],xii,[2],328pp. plus four engraved plates. Half title. Original publisher's green cloth, gilt. Moderate wear and some dampstaining. Internally clean. Good. The scarce second edition (published in the same year as the first) of this popular account of life in Hudson Bay and the Red River settlement, replete with... More about HUDSON'S BAY; OR EVERY-DAY LIFE IN THE WILDS OF NORTH AMERICA, DURING SIX YEARS' RESIDENCE IN THE...

[Baltimore. 1854]. 16pp. Dbd. Two old horizontal folds. Some light foxing. Very good, partially unopened. A significant talk by Sen. Benton lending his support to the concept of a Pacific railroad and discussing the value of Fremont's expedition toward that end. He quotes Beale and Heap, as well as Charles... More about MARYLAND INSTITUTE - WESTERN GEOGRAPHY. DISCOURSE OF MR. BENTON, OF MISSOURI, BEFORE THE MARYLAND...

Chico. [ 1914]. 91pp. with illustrations. Illus. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Contents browned as usual. A near fine copy of a fragile book. These sketches of the author's early life in the West and California, including his account of his 1839 overland journey as a prospective settler, were originally published in... More about ECHOES OF THE PAST. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST EMIGRANT TRAIN TO CALIFORNIA, FREMONT IN THE CONQUEST...

Coblenz, Paris, and London. [ca. 1839-1842]. Handcolored engraving, 10 x 13 1/2 inches; matted and framed to 14 x 19 inches. Clean and fresh, handsome modern color. Very good. A handsome view from Staten Island, captured by Swiss artist Karl Bodmer upon his arrival in New York harbor in the... More about ENTRY TO THE BAY OF NEW-YORK TAKEN FROM STATEN ISLAND.

Paris, Coblenz, London. [ 1839-1842]. Handcolored aquatint engraving by René Rollet after Bodmer, blind-stamp in lower margin. Sheet size: 20 5/8 x 15 13/16 inches. Very good. Perhaps the greatest image to emerge from the picturing of the American West, and certainly Bodmer's most famous, this highly-charged portrait of Péhriska-Rúhpa... More about PEHRISKA-RUHPA. MOENNITARRI WARRIOR IN THE COSTUME OF THE DOG DANSE [sic]. [Tab. 23].

Springfield. 1865. 452pp. Lacks the map. Edgeworn, hinges broken, else good. The second issue with the added pages on California and the mines by William Ashburner. Bowles' party left Kansas in May 1865, reached San Francisco in July, and travelled thence to Oregon and Washington by steamer. In August they... More about ACROSS THE CONTINENT: A SUMMER'S JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, THE MORMONS, AND THE PACIFIC...

Cleveland. 1860. 68pp. 12mo. Original half muslin and printed paper boards. Hinges tender. Boards a bit soiled, worn at spine ends. Contemporary ownership inscription on front free endpaper. A few fox marks, but generally clean and fresh internally. A very good copy. In a cloth clamshell case, leather label. A... More about THE INDIAN CAPTIVE. A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES AND SUFFERINGS OF MATTHEW BRAYTON, IN HIS...

New York. 1930. x,301pp. plus folding map. Illus. Cloth. Worn at head and toe of spine, some discoloration. A good copy. Brewerton was in California during the Mexican War. In 1848 he travelled east from Los Angeles to Taos over the Old Spanish Trail with Carson, later going farther east... More about OVERLAND WITH KIT CARSON. A NARRATIVE OF THE OLD SPANISH TRAIL IN '48.

London. 1861. x,[2],707pp. plus frontispiece and eight plates (one folding) and folding map. Contemporary calf, ruled in gilt, spine richly gilt, gilt morocco label, gilt crest of the Earl of Derby on the front board. Front board neatly rehinged. Very clean and fresh internally. Very good. The famed British traveller... More about THE CITY OF THE SAINTS AND ACROSS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS TO CALIFORNIA.

Taos. 1926. 138pp. including frontispiece and plates. Original printed wrappers. Minor edge wear, inner hinges a bit tender. Internally clean. Very good. In a modern half leather and cloth box. The first publication of this dictated autobiography, which Peters used as the basis of his own biography of Carson, but... More about KIT CARSON'S OWN STORY OF HIS LIFE. AS DICTATED TO COL. AND MRS. D.C. PETERS ABOUT 1856-57....

London. 1844. Large folio lithograph, colored in aquatint. Slight discoloration, otherwise a very nice copy. This portrait is one of the extra, unnumbered, plates from CATLIN'S NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN PORTFOLIO.... A nice, striking portrait of a standing chief holding a spear. More about JOC-O-SOT, THE WALKING BEAR, A SAUK CHIEF FROM THE UPPER MISSOURI.