ix+152pp. Small ink address to endpaper and blind stamp to title page. The first complete narrative of an expedition into the Southwest after that of Pike in 1806-7. This journal has long been recognized as one of the most valuable accounts of early travel in the region. A frontiersman and trader, Major Fowler was also a surveyor whose travels 'extended to the great plains and mountains of the far West before civilization had reached this distant wilds'. The journal which he kept on a trading journey in 1821-22 lay hidden in family archives until 1898. Preface and additional notes by Raymond W. and Mary Lund Settle and Harry R. Stevens. Bibliography and Index.

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