Edwards, Philip Leget.

Claremont [CA]: Privately printed, 1947 One of a small number of copies. Some library catalogs state that twenty copies were printed.. 7 x 5 . Blue green wrappers stitched at spine. Mild toning at wrapper fore-edges and spine. Chip at top-right front wrapper corner. Paperclip indent and rust marking first two leaves. Handwritten note on Dawson's Book Shop stationery from Muir Dawson to a Ruth Louise Kestenbaum, dated August 20, 1947, laid in. Kestenbaum's name in blue ink to front endpaper. A very good + copy. From the introduction (excerpted from the Missouri Enquirer): "Mr. Edwards, [the author], is a gentleman about 21 or 22 years old, and well known to many of our readers as a young man of worth and promise. His object at the Rocky Mountains was to civilize the Flat Head Indians. He was employed by and accompanied the Messrs. Lees, who were appointed by one of the eastern conferences to establish a mission among the above named Indians."