Men to Match My Mountains. The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900.

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1956 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Early printing. 459pp. Bibliography and index. Green cloth. Binding very slightly cocked, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket (spine of jacket faded, and with slight edgewear). An interwoven pageant of stories of the great westward expansion to California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. A good read, this work includes a "colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by what geographers call the true Far West..."..