THE AMERICAN HERITAGE HISTORY OF THE GREAT WEST (with Slipcase)

Text/BRAND NEW. Embossed maroon linen boards w/gilt lettering/Fine. DJ/None as Issued. Black slipcase w/pastedown illustration of Jedediah Smith on horseback by Harvey Dunn/NF w/small losses to pastedown edges. Illustrated endpapers. Text by noted historian of the Western United States, and twice recipient of the Pulitzer, David Sievert Lavender (1910 - 2003). 14 chapters augmented w/illustrations, maps & photos: !, Beyond the First Mountains 1763-1779; 2, Whose West? 1779-1795; 3, The Trans-Mississippi Mystery 1792-1807; 4, Barren Beginnings 1804-1813; 5, War & Depression 1810-1821; 6, Seven-League Boots 1821-1833; 7, The Southwestern Barriers 1825-1844; 8, The Great Surge 1832-1846; 9, New Empires 1846-1848; 10, The Miseries of Richness 1848-1854; 11, The Great Prize 1852-1861; 12, Clearing the Way 1854-1870; 13, High, Wide, & Ugly 1870-1890; and 14, New Values 1890-1914.