MINERS AND TRAVELERS' GUIDE TO OREGON, WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, WYOMING, AND COLORADO. VIA THE MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS....

New York, 1865. 153pp. folding map.(in facsimile) Original blindstamped green cloth,corners and top and bottom of spine show light wear. Lacks front flyleaf) The narrative includes a day-by-day itinerary during a journey of forty-seven days from Walla Walla to Fort Benton, with a general description of the route. Wheat provides an exhaustive description of the "General Map of the North Pacific States and Territories Belonging to the United States and of British Columbia...," which he calls "very fine" and reproduces as the frontispiece of the fifth volume of MAPPING THE TRANSMISSISSIPPI WEST. The "Addenda" of Mullan's work offers recent developments in the mining of gold and silver in Idaho. STREETER SALE 2106. WAGNER-CAMP 420a. TWENEY 89, 55. GRAFF 2933. SABIN 51274. HOWES M885. WHEAT TRANSMISSISSIPPI 1126 (Inventory #: 30903)