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Harrison Clifford Dale
The Ashley-Smith Explorations and Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822-1829
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Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918
Dale, Harrison Clifford. The Ashley-Smith Explorations and Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific 1822-1829. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1918. First edition Limited to 810 copies. 8vo. 352pp. Bibliography; Index. Double-page color frontispiece map & full-page map. 3 plates. Red cloth with gilt lettering; top edge gilt. Fading to spine; gilt is bright; minor wear to extremities; else a near fine copy of an early Arthur H. Clark title.
"...one of the seminal books concerning the exploration of the Far West." - Kurutz, Sloan Z80:25. Using manuscripts held by the Missouri Historical Society and fragments of a journal kept by Harrison G. Rogers, the clerk of the company, the author provides new insights about Smith's adventures (many of them 'firsts' in the exploration of the West) and rightfully places him as a true Western hero. "The source-book of Jedediah Strong Smith, trapper and trader, and the first white man to enter California overland from the eastern United States" (Zamorano Eighty #25). (Cowan II pg. 154; Howes D21; Mattes 6; Paher pg. 427).
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