This Reckless Breed of Men; The Trappers and Fur Traders of the Southwest
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Fine in Very Good dust-jacket First Edition, Later Printing. [8.5x6in]; xv, 361 pp., i-xx [index], [1] colophon, color frontispiece of Edwin James first view of the Rocky Mountains, eight plates of 16 illustrations and images, four maps, bibliography and index; Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine and blind stamped tree and Cleland initals on front, red ink stained top edge, fore edge uncut; Red dust jacket with white and black lettering on front and spine, color illustration of landscape on front, Cleland biographical note and illustration on back; Negiligible shelf wear to covers, edges and corners, top edge stain faded; Some shelf wear to dust jacket with some soiling, slightly faded spine and covers, minor small chips to corners and top and bottom of spine, several closed tears to top front with old tape repairs, not price clipped. Item #13954
Robert Glass Cleland (1885-1957), a historian and author of the American West. Glass wrote, during the 1930's to 1950's, about the settlement of the west and California. Hilghly readable histroies and events.
From Worldcat..."Here is the dramatic story of men who "belonged to a calling that had no counterpart." The fur traders, trappers, beaver-hunters, or mountain men, says Mr. Cleland, "started from frontiers at which more cautious pioneers were glad to stop." They were men to whom "danger became a daily commonplace ... who took tribute of the wilderness and wandered through the reaches of the outer West with all the freedom of the lonely wind." Before missionaries, gold-seekers, and cattlemen, this reckless breed opened pathways to the western sea. Their story is in the very bones of our American history."
Price: $35.00