A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839. This item is unavailable.A JOURNEY TO THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS IN 1839

BOOK DESCRIPTION: 8vo, 162 pgs, folding map, frontis, Original blue-grey paper over boards, blue cloth spine with gilt, top edge gilt. Limited to 500 copies, this is #173. CONDITION DESCRIPTION: Ends of spine are rubbed. Top corner of book is worn with boards showing, edges rubbed. Interior is very clean and free of marks. Overall a VG copy. CONTEN TS DESCRIPTION: Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (first name sometimes spelled Frederick) was a German-born American MD, explorer and botanist. Accompanying one of the expeditions of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he traveled far into the northwest, towards the source of Green River in the Wind River Mountains. When the trappers turned back home, Wislizenus joined a band of Flathead and Nez Perce Indians with whom he crossed the Rocky Mountains. He ventured back along the banks of Arkansas River to the border of Missouri.-CAMP-BECKER 83. HOWES W 596. GRAFF 4722. RADER 3712. RITTENHOUSE 655.