2 vols. xxx, 482; [2], 483-1014 pp. Introduction and notes by Stallo Vinton. Illustrated with a sketch of the author by Dr. Edmond S. Meany; Vol. I with a frontispiece portrait from a photograph; several portrait plates from paintings, photos and engravings; facsimile letter. 8vo. Green cloth, lettered in gilt.

An important work on the growth, development, and decline of the Fur Trade in the Western U.S., including its major protagonists, events, effects, etc. Graff notes, "Sixty years after publication, this is still the great work on the subject." A condensed reprint edition, with some omissions, of the 1902 three-volume first edition. Lacks the folding map in the rear pocket of Volume II. (Graff 696); Howes C390; (Rader 770).