The Big Divide

DAVID LAVENDER

Publication: Doubleday, 1948, Garden City

First edition. Cloth, maps on end-papers, x [2], 321pp., num. illus., acknow., biblio., index. Story of the southern Rocky Mountains from Santa Fe to Yellowstone. Chapters on mountain men, Santa Fe and Taos, gold rush, Indians, principally Washakie's Shoshone, Mountain Utes, Leadville, Alta, Aspen, Creede, etc., early transportation, mountain railroads, Otto Mears's Short Lines, Cripple Creek, livestock, and much more. Small sticker residue on front paste-down sheet, else very good in price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities.

Inventory Number: 49952