Wild Scenes in Kansas and Nebraska, the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies ; Or, Notes by the Way, During an Excursion of Three Years, with a Description of the Countries Passed Through, ... Third Edition Revise by Sage, Rufus B - 1855

Nabu Press, 2010-04-08. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-05-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-05-10. Paperback. Used:Good.

Hardback. New.

New.

G. D. Miller Publisher, 1855. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" 303pp. 11 steel engraved plates, with illustrated title page. Rebound in in full brown cloth, with red paper label titled in gilt on spine, and new endsheets. Some soiling in places, light foxing along the edges; binding has a touch of light wear. Overall a Very Good copy. Includes the best contemporary account of Snively's abortive land-pirate expedition. HOWES S 16; WAGNER-CAMP 123:4.

Philadelphia: G. D. Miller, Publisher, 1855. Cloth. Good. [6], x, [13]-303 pages. Includes second illustrated title page and additional plates in the text. 8vo. Publisher's brown cloth, blindstamped decorated covers, and gilt decorated spine. An exlibrary copy, with glue residue and staining to the front endpapers and mild residue to rear pastedown where pocket was removed. Embossed stamp to title page. Previous owner name inked on 2 endpapers. No spine labeling, presents nicely on the shelf. Corners and head/tail spine panel worn. First 30 pages or so with grubby reader's marks on the page edges. Cloth.

Philadelphia, 1855. Third edition. [4], 303 pp. plus plates. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green publisher's cloth, stamped in blind and gilt on spine. Extremities worn; boards lightly rubbed. Bookplate on front pastedown. Minor scattered foxing and soiling. About very good. Signed F.R. Curtis on front free endpaper. In a blue half morocco and cloth slipcase, spine gilt. Third edition. [4], 303 pp. plus plates. 1 vols. 8vo. One of the most important overland narratives, originally issued under the title SCENES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTIANS (1846).  Sage set out from Westport in the summer of 1841 with a fur caravan, later visiting New Mexico, witnessing the disaster of the Snively expedition and joining the end of the 1843 Fremont expedition. He returned to Ohio in time to take a vigorous if futile role in the election of 1844, supporting Henry Clay, and wrote this book in 1845. Sage was certainly one of the most literate and acute observers of the West in the period immediately before the events of 1846.… Read More