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FREMONT, JOHN C. Report on an Exploration of the Country lying between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains, on the line of the Kansas and Great Platte Rivers.
Folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates. 8vo, disbound; some foxing, minor short tear to map, first leaf almost detached, early owner's ink signature on the first leaf. 27th Congress, 3d Session, Senate Doc. No. 243. Washington, 1843
- Notes: first edition. "This is the first issue of the many times reprinted report of Fremont's first expedition to the Rocky Mountain country. The expedition was designed by Senator Benton and the expansionist group in Congress to publicize the first main division of the route to Oregon, for though this was well known to the fur traders, the region west of the Missouri was still terra incognita to the general public"--Streeter Sale 3130; Howes F371; Graff 1437; Wagner-Camp 95.
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