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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. B/W Plates (illustrator). Leonard's account of his adventures was first released (limited edition) in 1839. Leonard was a farm boy turned mountain man. Read more about : Flathead tribe, Ross Cox, North West Company trader, Chimney Cliff, Pierre's Hole, British flag, calaboose, knock-him-stiff', and Lagoda. Lots of b/w plates - mostly paintings from the era. B/W map ahead of contents page. Cond : Boards are black with green lettering at spine. White end-papers. D.J. is black with green. Front cover illustration is from a painting of a white trader in a Plains Indian camp - circa 1838 . Volume tight, clean and square. No names nor marks. D.J. has edge wear -esp, top edge, but not price-clipped. Collectible American history. Quote (p. 82) : " ._._. when we killed the last buffalo near the Great Salt Lake, and the first we had eat since our dried meat was exhausted (being fourteen days), during which time we lived on stale and forbidden horse flesh. I was conscious that it was not such meat as a dog would feast on, but we were ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.