History of Early Steamboat Navigation on the Missouri River: Life and Adventures of Joseph La Barge...
first edition
1903 · New York
by Chittenden, Hiram Martin
New York: Francis P. Harper, 1903 2 volumes. First edition. One of 950 copies. Pp. xiv, 248 + [6], [249]-461. Frontis in each volume, 14 illustrations including a map. Publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt spines. Corners and spine ends show rubbing, else a very fine, bright set. La Barge was a pioneer steamboat captain, navigator and Indian trader. For fifty years he was identified with the commerce of the Missouri Valley and opened the Blackfoot country to trade and civilization. Like the author's The American Fur Trade of the Far West, this work is very elusive, scholarly and desirable. [Graff: 697; Howes I: C-391; Howes II: C-399].. (Inventory #: 8141)