Indispensable Works on Western History

Father Pierre Jean De Smet, Life, Letters, and Travels

Missionary Labors and Adventures Among the Wild Tribes of the North
American Indians, 1801-1873, Embracing minute description of their
Manners, Customs, Games, Mode of Warfare and Torture, Legends,
Traditions, etc., all from Personal Observation made During Many
Thousand Miles of Travel, with Sketches of the Country from St. Louis
to Puget Sound and the Athabasca. Edited from the original unpub-
lished manuscript journals, Letter-books and from his Printed Works
with Historical, Geographical, Ethnological and other Notes; also a
Life of Father De Smet. Map and illustrations by Major Hiram Martin
Chittenden, U. S. Engineers, and Alfred Talbot Richardson. 4 vols., 8vo,
cloth (about 1,600 pages)
$15.00 net

Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike

To the Headwaters of the Mississippi River, the interior parts of
Louisiana, Mexico, and Texas, in the years of 1805-6-7. Reprinted in
full from the original Philadelphia edition of 1810. With copious notes
to the text, compiled from many unpublished sources of information, a
new Memoir of Pike and an Index by Dr. Elliott Coues.
Edition limited. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth,

150 on hand-made paper,

New Light on the Early History of the Greater Northwest

$10.00 net $20.00 net

The Journals of Alexander Henry (Partner of the Northwest Company), with Explorations and Life with the Fur Traders on the Red, Saskatchewan, and Columbia Rivers, 1799-1814, now first published from the Coventry Manuscripts in the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, with which are collated the original unpublished manuscripts of David Thompson, Explorer and Geographer of the Northwest Company. The whole carefully edited with copious notes by Dr. Elliott Coues, with maps, index, etc.

Limited edition. 3 vols., roy, 8vo, cloth,

100 on hand-made paper,

The American Fur Trade of the Far West

By MAJOR HIRAM M. CHITTENDEN, U. S. ENGINEER CORPS.

$10.00 net $20.00 net

A History of the Pioneer Trading Posts and Early Fur Companies of the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Mountains, and of the Overland Commerce with Santa Fé, etc., written largely from manuscript and other records hitherto inaccessible. Illustrated with maps and plates. 3 vols., 8vo, cloth, uncut, per set $10.00 net A work of the highest merit and greatest importance on the early history of the Great West. The author has embodied in it the results of years of painstaking research, going into the whole subject with a thoroughness and ability rarely met with in these days. Every known printed authority has been consulted and digested, and in addition a mass of original manuscripts hitherto inaccessible has been placed at Capt. Chittenden's disposal. The result is that many important details connected with the discovery and development of the West are now first brought to light.

ALL FOR SALE BY

FRANCIS P. HARPER,

14 West 22nd Street,

NEW YORK

PRICED CATALOGUE

OF A REMARKABLE COLLECTION OF

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OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS

RELATING TO THE

DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, AND HISTORY OF
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

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Early Voyages of Discovery, Pre-Columbian and Columbian;
First Settlement of the Colonies; French and Indian War;
The Revolution, Washingtoniana; War of 1812; War with
Mexico; Civil and Political History of the United States;
Rare State, County, and Town Local Histories of every
State and Territory; Biographies of Eminent Men; An
Unusual Collection of Family Histories and Genealogies;
The American Indians, their Antiquities, Ethnology, History,
Wars, and Languages; Arctic Voyages of Discovery; British
America, Canada; Mexico; Central and South America and
the West Indian Islands.

OFFERED FOR sale at THE MODERATE PRICES affixed

BY

FRANCIS P. HARPER

14 WEST 22D STREET,

NEW YORK CITY