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304 pp. (8vo) 21.4x12.5 cm (8½x5"), modern half calf & marbled boards, spine gilt, marbled endpapers. First Edition.

Important early account of the Louisiana Territory and the beginnings of the organized fur trade within its bounds. The first part of the work is comprised of a series of essays originally published in the St. Louis Lousiana Gazette in 1811, describing the Louisiana country, including an account of the fur trade, principally Manuel Lisa's operations, and describes the expedition to the Yellowstone in 1807, the formation of the Missouri Fur Company, and the expedition to the forks of the Missouri. The second part relates Brackenridge's trip up the Missouri with Lisa to a newly established post of the Missouri Fur Company, upstream from the Mandan villages. An appendix follows the journal, consisting of a series of extracts from contemporary sources, including Sibley's Account of a Journey from Fort Clark, on the Missouri, to the Salines, on the Arkansas. Old ink signature of Philip Doddridge on title page.

Provenance: Ross Valley Book Company, 9/91

References: Graff 3789; Howes B688; Sabin 7176; Streeter 1776; Wagner-Camp 12:1.