Life in the Rocky Mountains: A Diary of Wanderings on the sources of the Rivers Missouri, Columbia, and Colorado from February, 1830, to November, 1835

Denver: Fred A. Rosenstock; The Old West Publishing Company, 1940. First Fred A. Rosenstock edition edited by Paul C. Phillips. Hardcover. Near fine/very good minus. 365pp. Large octavo [24 cm] Red cloth over boards. Publisher's dark red topstain. Other edges deckled. With the map. The spine ends are just a little bruised, and there is a previous owner's brief contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper. In a dust jacket, with general light soiling, and periodic taped short closed tears and chips to the edges. Howes F100. Edited, and with a Life of Ferris, and a History of Explorations and Fur Trade, by Paul C. Phillips.

"First full-length description of Yellowstone." - Wright Howes.