The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life
382pp; nine black and white plates. Blue leatherette-covered boards; gilt design on front, copper titles on spine; illustrative endpapers; silk page marker. 8vo. Text block edges starting to tan on some signatures. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. The story of Parkman's journey through the plains and mountains of the West to see for himself the life of the American Indian - a long trek spanning 5 months in 1846.
