River of the West. Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, etc. etc

Hartford: Columbian Book Company, 1870. Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown cloth with gilt stamped bear to front cover, brown clay-coated endpapers, frontispiece of Joseph Meek and both plate and in-text illustrations, 602 pp. + ad for Kane at rear. Professionally restored joints & hinges. Ownership inscription of George Bird Grinnell in pencil to first blank page. Grinnell was deeply interested in both natural history and Native Americans, and this book certainly fits in with his main areas of interest.