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The Overland Diary Of Wilson Price Hunt FRANCHERE, HOYT C. [EDITOR & TRANSLATOR]

The Overland Diary Of Wilson Price Hunt

FRANCHERE, HOYT C. [EDITOR & TRANSLATOR]

Other works by FRANCHERE, HOYT C.

Publication: The Oregon Book Society, 1973, Ashland

First Edition. #39 of a Numbered and Signed edition limited to 600 copies. Cloth. viii-xv., 67pp. Illustrations. Maps. Various aspects of the fur trade venture of John Jacob Astor. This work is separated into 3 different parts: Prologue: The Fortunes of the Men of the Tonquin; The Diary: Overland to the Mouth of the Columbia; and Epilogue: Further Adventures of the Astorians. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper, else a fine copy in plain dust jacket, as issued. Occasional rubbing/soiling to back panel, and name and author written lightly in pencil on spine of plain dust jacket.

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