Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subject and with Introductions by the Editor Author: Hafen, Leroy R., Editor Place: Glendale, California Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company Date: 1965-72 Description: 10 volumes. Portraits; map; plates. (8vo) 23.5x15.5 cm (9½x6¼"), brown cloth, spines gilt lettered. First Editions. One of approximately 2,000 sets. "This series was Hafen's final major work in the field of western American history. Together with noted scholars and history buffs from throughout the country, he compiled biographies of the major male figures in the fur trade of the Far West...The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in volume I provides an excellent background study of the development of the fur trade" (Clark & Brunet). Clark and Brunet, 108; Rittenhouse, 266. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing of spines and edges, some fading to cloth; very good or better. Item number: 256248
Title: The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars of the Subject and with Introductions by the Editor Author: Hafen, Leroy R., Editor Place: Glendale, California Publisher: The Arthur H. Clark Company Date: 1965-72 Description: 10 volumes. Portraits; map; plates. (8vo) 23.5x15.5 cm (9½x6¼"), brown cloth, spines gilt lettered. First Editions. One of approximately 2,000 sets. "This series was Hafen's final major work in the field of western American history. Together with noted scholars and history buffs from throughout the country, he compiled biographies of the major male figures in the fur trade of the Far West...The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in volume I provides an excellent background study of the development of the fur trade" (Clark & Brunet). Clark and Brunet, 108; Rittenhouse, 266. Lot Amendments Condition: Some rubbing of spines and edges, some fading to cloth; very good or better. Item number: 256248
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