Dale. The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829

Dale, Harrison Clifford. The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829. Glendale, California: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1941. Revised Edition. [8538] Green publisher's cloth, gilt spine titles, 9 1/2 inches, top edge gilt. 360 clean pp., complete with maps & plates, tight. Very good. Hardcover. Howes D21; Rader 1040; Wagner-Camp 35. No. 55 in Clark & Brunet, The Arthur C. Clark Company, A Bibliography and History, 1902-1992. "This first publication of these accounts served in large part to rescue Jedediah Smith from obscurity. Later treatments by Sullivan, Morgan and others have lifted his reputation to equal status with the other major fur traders of the early nineteenth century. This book is one of the basic works in fur trade history."The first edition was published in 1918; this is the revised edition, incorporating materials discovered since the first was published.William Henry Ashley (c. 1778-1838), b. Powhatan, VA; d. Co