Sage, Rufus B.

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

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Description

Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas and the Grand Prairies: or, Notes by the Way, during an Excursion of Three Years.... Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1846
calf, ink

8vo (7 x 4 1/4 in.; 180 x 110 mm). Large folding map; minor repair at edge. Modern calf.

Literature

Cowan II pp 548-49; Field 1345; Graff 3633; Howes S16; Mintz 402; Sabin 74892;

Catalogue Note

first edition, first issue. "Intelligent narrative of extensive travels from the Platte to the Arkansas, including the best account of Snively's abortive land-pirate expedition" (Howes). Mintz calls Sage "one of the earliest to travel the trail as an experience. Sage's prime motivation appears to have been to obtain 'adventures' for his book." Including the oft-lacking folding map "Oregon, California, New Mexico, N.W. Texas, & the proposed Territory of Nebraska", which was printed too late for inclusion in all copies of the first edition; about one hundred copies are thought to have been issued with the map, which is one of the earliest printed maps to name "Ne-Bras-Ka".