THE DARING ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON AND FREMONT, AMONG BUFFALOES, GRIZZLIES AND INDIANS, BEING A SPIRITED DIARY OF THE MOST DIFFICULT AND WONDERFUL EXPLORATIONS EVER MADE, OPENING, THROUGH YAWNING CHASMS AND OVER PERILOUS PEAKS, THE GREAT PATHWAY TO THE PACIFI
1885 · New York
by [Carson, Kit]: [Fremont, John C.
New York: Hurst & Co, 1885. [5]-493,[8]pp. including frontispiece. Publisher's purple cloth stamped in black, spine gilt. Spine sunned, minor edge wear. Hinges cracked, text uniformly tanned. Good. In a modern half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt, leather labels. A sensationalized look at two of the most famous figures in the Wild West, typified by the language in the title itself. The first fifth of the book includes a biography of Kit Carson; the majority of the text is taken up with Fremont's report about his explorations of the Missouri, Kansas, and Platte Rivers, and a route through the Rocky Mountains (Inventory #: WRCAM54429)