Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Company, 1925. 18 plates. xvii, 546 pages. Small 4to, original red cloth with embossed cover. Salt Lake City: Shepard Book Company, (1925). Limited First Edition. A very good(+) copy with light wear at extremes. Number 552 of 1000 copies, signed by the author. Bridger began as fur trapper in 1822. "During the next twenty years...he repeatedly traversed the area between the Canadian boundary and the southern line of Colorado and from the Missouri River westward..... More

Chicago: W. E. Dibble, 1890. Experiences of the Most Noted American Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Scout, and Indian Fighter Now Living. Many Illus. 473pp. + publisher's ad on last page. 8vo, original brown cloth with gilt and black decorations, text pages age-toned throughout, previous owner's ink inscription on front flyleaf and following blank page, old newspaper article on Dick Wootton pasted on blank page at end. Chicago: W. E. Dibble, 1890. First Edition. Very good Starting at Bent's Fort, Colorado in..... More

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857. (Bound with): Irving, Washington. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West. Digested from His Journal... 2 Vols. in one. 12mo, contemporary 3/4 red calf, gilt spine, spine dampstained, light foxing to some margins. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857. The Conquest of Florida was "Compiled from Herrera, Garcilaso de la Vega and the narrative of the gentleman of Elvas." Howes I-80. Washington Irving writes of "Explorations and..... More

Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1828. xii, 325pp. 8vo, original 1/2 brown cloth and brown boards with original paper label, front cover detached, spine worn, edges of boards worn, scattered light foxing, margins uncut, cloth and boards lightly soiled. Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1828. First Edition. John Ledyard, an American marine, sailed with Captain James Cook on Cook's third Voyage. "At Nootka Sound, which was reached in March, 1778, he (Ledyard) began to picture the vast possibilities of the northwestern fur..... More