Morgan, Dale L., editor

The West of William H. Ashley. The international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri, the Rocky Mountains, and the Columbia, with explorations beyond the Continental Divide, recorded in the diaries and letters of William H. Ashley and his contemporaries 1822-1838

Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock / The Old West Publishing Company, 1964. First edition limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Morgan (this, mo. 62); folio, pp. liv, 341, [1]; color frontispiece, vignette title page printed in red and black, 20 plates (1 in color) showing 28 illustrations, 4 facsimiles, and 3 maps (1 folding); original half calf over brown buckram, spine with raised bands and red morocco gilt label, publisher's slipcase. Fine. Ashley was an early American fur trader in the region, and his explorations beyond the Continental Divide helped establish the fur trade in the Rockies. Item #61163

Price: $600.00