460 + [24] ad pp. Illustrated from several engravings throughout the text, including frontispiece and an additional pictorial title page; large folding hand-colored lithographed map by G.W. & C.B. Colton for this book, tipped-in at the end before the ad pages. (8vo) 7¼x5, original red cloth, front cover and spine decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. First Edition.

Early pioneer travel through the American Northwest; chiefly that of Minnesota. Advertisements in the back are for books, railroad lines, hotels, insurance companies, steamships, real estate brokers, etc. Eberstadt 479; Wright 1090.