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Life in The Rocky Mountains 1830-1835
Ferris, Warren Angus and Herbert S. Auerbach (Ed.) · Salt lake City, Utah
- Author
- Ferris, Warren Angus and Herbert S. Auerbach (Ed.)
- Date
- 1940
- Place
- Salt lake City, Utah
- Publisher
- Rocky Mountain Bookshop
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 4to.(7.5" x 9.5") 284 pp. Full brown cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Minor edgewear, head and foot of spine and corners rubbed. Neat pencil notations to many margins throughout, booksellers notes neatly in pencil to first free endpaper. Prior owner's name, R.A. Swayze, stamped on front pastedown, first free flyleaf and rear pastedown. Illustrated with 4 plates and folding map to rear.Lacking dust jacket
- Format
- Warren Angus Ferris (December 26, 1810 – February 8, 1873) was a trapper, cartographer and diarist in the Rocky Mountains from 1830 to 1835.From 1829–1835, he traveled to Cache Valley and the Snake River area with the American Fur Company. With the help of Native American guides, he explored what is now Yellowstone National Park in 1834. He recorded his experiences in a journal that was published as the book Life in the Rocky Mountains in 1940. The book contained the first settler-made map of the area, called the "Map of the Northwest Fur Country." Ferris became a surveyor in Texas in the area that is now Dallas. He also served on the Texas State Congress. Ferris settled down as a farmer in his later life and wrote articles for the Dallas Herald newspaper.
- Category
- History & Americana
- Record
- S.I.7986
4to.(7.5" x 9.5") 284 pp. 1940. Salt lake City, Utah: Rocky Mountain Bookshop. Full brown cloth with gilt lettering to upper board and spine. Minor edgewear, head and foot of spine and corners rubbed. Neat pencil notations to many margins throughout, booksellers notes neatly in pencil to first free endpaper. Prior owner's name, R.A. Swayze, stamped on front pastedown, first free flyleaf and rear pastedown. Illustrated with 4 plates and folding map to rear.Lacking dust jacket. Warren Angus Ferris (December 26, 1810 – February 8, 1873) was a trapper, cartographer and diarist in the Rocky Mountains from 1830 to 1835.From 1829–1835, he traveled to Cache Valley and the Snake River area with the American Fur Company. With the help of Native American guides, he explored what is now Yellowstone National Park in 1834. He recorded his experiences in a journal that was published as the book Life in the Rocky Mountains in 1940. The book contained the first settler-made map of the area, called the "Map of the Northwest Fur Country." Ferris became a surveyor in Texas in the area that is now Dallas. He also served on the Texas State Congress. Ferris settled down as a farmer in his later life and wrote articles for the Dallas Herald newspaper.
Condition
Near Fine
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