New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest: The Manuscript Journals of Alexander Henry ... and of David Thompson ... 1799-1814
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Item #23977 .
8vo. 3 volumes. Blue cloth, gilt spine title. Frontispiece in volume one. Volume three contains an index, three folding maps and a tracing of the map legend. Pictorial bookplates in each volume. else a fine set.
Coues used and edited the unpublished journals of Alexander Henry, a fur trader, and David Thompson, a geographer, both of whom were contemporaries of Lewis and Clark and worked for the Northwest Company. Here we are given a detailed look at the fur trade and early exploration of the American Northwest between 1799 and 1814 covering the activities and observations of the journalists as they traveled along the Red, Saskatchewan, Missouri, and Columbia Rivers.
Howes H-419
One of 1100 numbered sets.
Price: $1,000.00