Through the Yellowstone Park on Horseback

New York: O. Judd Co., David W. Judd, Pres't, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 250pp. 6 pages of ads. Octavo [19 cm] in original blue cloth with decorative gilt title to the front cover and spine. Bevelled edges. Decorative endsheets. Folding map tucked in at rear. Several full page illustrations from engravings. General light wear with light fraying at spine ends and tips. A bit darkening to the extremities. Top fore-edge corner of the front free endpaper cut out. Two contemporary inscriptions on the front flyleaf. The large folded map has some splitting at the folds (longest split measures 5") and a dime sized chip in the top blank margin. The author undertook this journey in June, 1885, along with his wife and eldest daughter, who was the age of seventeen. In regards to this journey Wingate states at the opening of this account, "If I had been going to Africa instead of to the Yellowstone, I could scarcely have had more trouble in obtaining reliable information in regard to the journey; and while I have undertaken, for the benefit of friends, to write such an account of it as my time will permit, I do so with the hope that it may perchance relieve others contemplating such an excursion from some of the difficulties that I experienced, in trying to learn what was to be done and what avoided."

A desirable early Yellowstone title.