The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829..
by DALE, Harrison Clifford
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. First revised and enlarged edition. Octavo. 360 pp. Illustrated and with fold-out color map as frontispiece. Publisher's vertically-ribbed green cloth with gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. A very good copy, clean and tight.The standard text for discussion of the journeys famed trapper and mountain man Jedediah Smith made while in the employ of William H. Ashley. Dale had to significantly rewrite this book (originally published in 1918) after the discovery of the Jedediah Smith journals.Jedediah Smith was the first reported American to travel overland to California, the first to cross the Sierra Nevada from the west, the first to travel across the Great Basin, north and south as well as east and west, the first to travel north up the California coast to Oregon, and the first to provide a usable description of South Pass.
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- Bookseller
- Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69892
- Title
- The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829..
- Author
- DALE, Harrison Clifford
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Arthur H. Clark Company
- Place of Publication
- Glendale
- Date Published
- 1941
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About the Seller
Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA
Nat DesMarais Rare Books specializes in books on the Sierra Nevada (particularly Yosemite), the Mojave, and California books in general. We also deal in the art of the American West, voyages and travels and nineteenth century literature.
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- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.