Title: Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory Author: Farnham, Thomas J[efferson] Place: Poughkeepsie Publisher: Killey & Lossing, Printers Date: 1841 Description: 197 pp. 8vo, original textured burgundy cloth, leather spine label. First Edition Early account of the westward migration to Oregon. "Farnham was the leader of a group of Oregon-bound settlers, known as the `Peoria Party.' Leaving Independence on May 20, 1839, the party followed the Santa Fe Trail to Bent's Fort on the Arkanses River, where they divided. Farnham... traveled up the Arkansas, over the divide to the North Platte River, and on to Brown's Hole on the Green River.... Farnham continued to Oregon, arriving at Marcus Whitman's mission on September 23...." - Wagner-Camp, which also quotes Streeter quoting Herschel V. Jones saying "This is the first and most interesting of his [Farnham's] several books on the West.... It is the best account of the first overland-to-Oregon migration of settlers." Field 526; Graff 1294; Howes F50; Rittenhouse 201; Smith 2999; Streeter 2249; Tweney 20; Wagner-Camp 85:1 Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate wear to covers; nicks to cloth at spine head, short splits at ends of joints; usual foxing to text; else very good. Item number: 227552
Title: Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac and Rocky Mountains, and in the Oregon Territory Author: Farnham, Thomas J[efferson] Place: Poughkeepsie Publisher: Killey & Lossing, Printers Date: 1841 Description: 197 pp. 8vo, original textured burgundy cloth, leather spine label. First Edition Early account of the westward migration to Oregon. "Farnham was the leader of a group of Oregon-bound settlers, known as the `Peoria Party.' Leaving Independence on May 20, 1839, the party followed the Santa Fe Trail to Bent's Fort on the Arkanses River, where they divided. Farnham... traveled up the Arkansas, over the divide to the North Platte River, and on to Brown's Hole on the Green River.... Farnham continued to Oregon, arriving at Marcus Whitman's mission on September 23...." - Wagner-Camp, which also quotes Streeter quoting Herschel V. Jones saying "This is the first and most interesting of his [Farnham's] several books on the West.... It is the best account of the first overland-to-Oregon migration of settlers." Field 526; Graff 1294; Howes F50; Rittenhouse 201; Smith 2999; Streeter 2249; Tweney 20; Wagner-Camp 85:1 Lot Amendments Condition: Moderate wear to covers; nicks to cloth at spine head, short splits at ends of joints; usual foxing to text; else very good. Item number: 227552
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