Jedediah Smith: Trader & Trailbreaker
New York: Press of the Pioneers, 1936. First Edition. Large 8vo. 233pp. Notes; Index. Map. Illustrations by Howard Simon. Red cloth with gilt lettering in illustrated dustjacket. Small owner label else fine in fine dustjacket.(with minor agetoning). Item #10089
The first full-length biography of Jedediah Smith, the greatest of the trail breakers of his period. A giant among men, he was discoverer of the central route from the Rockies to the Pacific; leaders of the party which made effective discovery of the South Pass; the first white man to cross Nevada; the first to traverse Utah from north to south, and from west to east; the first American to enter California by the overland route; the first white man to conquer the Hight Sierras and the first to explore the Pacific Slope from San Diego to Vancouver.
Price: $200.00