OREGON MISSIONS AND TRAVELS OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, IN 1845 - 46.
New York: Published by Edward Dunigan, 1847. 408, [4] pp plus folding map, 14 tinted lithograph plates [including additional illustrated title page], as issued and collated complete. Contemporary publisher's cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down and inner hinges discreetly reinforced. Old institutional bookplate on front pastedown. Scattered foxing. Good+.
"This volume contains Father Smet's description of his travels through and about the central Columbia River plateau as well as a trip up that river to its source, during which he continued on to the Athabasca River, the country of the Assiniboines, and arrived at Fort Augusta about January 1, 1846. He returned to Fort Vancouver by way of Fort Colville. In July he departed for the Upper Mission and in August stopped at St. Mary's on his way down the Missouri River" [Wagner Camp].
Of the author, Field says that "Father Smet is a modern example of those hero martyrs of the Jesuit order" [Field 1427].
FIRST EDITION. Wagner-Camp 141:1. Howes D286. Graff 3825. Item #32401
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