The California and Oregon Trail: Being Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life
New-York: George P. Putnam, 1849. Very Good. Item #47919
New-York: George P. Putnam, 1849. First Edition, First State. Octavo (19.5cm); publisher's blind-embossed green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],448,[8]pp.; tinted frontispiece and pictorial title page. Binding expertly recased and rebacked with original spine portions laid down, retaining original endpapers; brief dampstaining to early leaves, scattered foxing throughout. A Very Good and sound restored copy. The text is preceded with two pages of publisher's advertisements for the works of Miss Sedgwick and concludes with an eight-page publisher's catalog (BAL catalog B).
"The journey which the following narrative describes was undertaken on the writer's part with a view of studying the manners and characters of Indians in their primitive state" (from the preface). The work was originally published as a twenty-one-part series in the Knickerbocker Magazine in 1847 when Parkman was just twenty-three years old.
BAL 15446; Howes P97; Sabin 58801.
Price: $2,000.00