Catalog

diaries and letters of the California-Oregon Trail

the international struggle for the fur trade of the Missouri the Rocky Mountains and the Columbia with explorations beyond the Continental Divide recorded in the diaries and letters of William H Ashley and his contemporaries 1822-1838

a record of exploration west across the Continental Divide down the Green River and into the Great Basin

containing facsimile reproductions of maps and indexes from the 1876 first edition of Rand McNally & Co's Business atlas of the great Mississippi Valley and Pacific slope; together with contemporary railroad maps and travel literature

selected papers of the 1965 North American Fur Trade Conference