Dec 04, 2003 - Sale 1988

Sale 1988 - Lot 44

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
ATKINSON, HENRY. Expedition up the Missouri. Letter from the Secretary of War . . . respecting the Movements of the Expedition which lately ascended the Missouri River. 16 pages. 8vo, disbound; foxed. 19th Congress, 1st Session, House Doc. No. 117. Washington, 1826

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"General Atkinson devotes most of his report to an account of Indian tribes and fur trade on the upper Missouri River . . . Atkinson recounts meeting William Ashley at the mouth of the Yellowstone and notes Ashley's comments on the existence of an easy passage across the Rockies at the headwaters of the Platte"--Wagner-Camp 32; Graff 104; Streeter Sale 1788.