EXPLORING EXP ROCKY MTNS PB (Exploring the American West) by FREMONT J ISBN 13: 9780874744392

Smithsonian Books, 1988. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988-04-17. Paperback. Good. 1.0000 9.2000 6.0000. Library notation on spine

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987. Reprint of 1845 edition. Paper covers. V.g./No Jacket. Little used.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1988. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in.Tall. No work has appeared from the American press within the past few years better calculated to interest the community at large than Colonel J.C. Fremont's Narrative of his Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, and North California, undertaken by the orders of the United States government. Eminently qualified for the task assigned him, Colonel Fremont entered upon his duties with alacrity, and has embodied in the following pages the results of his observations. The country thus explored is daily making deeper and more abiding impressions upon the minds of the people, and information is eagerly sought in regard to its natural resources, its climate, inhabitants, productions, and adaptation for supplying the wants and providing the comforts for a dense population. The day is not far distant when that territory, hitherto so little known, will be intersected by… Read More