STEPHEN HARRIMAN LONG 1784-1864; Army engineer, explorer, inventor

Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark, 1966. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 292. Bibliography, index. [Frontier military series VI.] Illustrated with maps and drawings. Frontis portrait. A fine copy. "Long was an early and important explorer of the American West, traveling to the upper Misissippi in 1817, leading an ill-fated "Yellowstone" expedition in 1819, (for which he produced the first steamboats to ply the Missouri River), an 1820 expedition to the Colorado Rockies, and an expedition to Canada"s Red River in 1823." -Clark and Brunet 275.