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Title: Jedediah Smith and His Maps of the American West Author: Morgan, Dale & Carl I. Wheat Place: San Francisco Publisher: California Historical Society Date: 1954 Description: [6], 86 pp. Intro. by Wheat. Illus. with reproductions of 7 maps (6 folding, 3 inserted loose in rear pocket). 17x11, red cloth. One of 530 copies printed by Lawton Kennedy. First Edition. Scholarly study of the influence of "the early West's greatest single explorer" on the mapping of the West. Smith was the first man to cross the Sierra Nevada and open the southwestern trail to California. He also pioneered the route from California to the Hudson's Bay Co. territory, established posts on the Columbia and mapped watersheds of the Missouri, Yellowstone, Platte, Rio Grande, Colorado, Snake and Columbia rivers. Lot Amendments Condition: Very lightly rubbed extremities, a touch sunned; else fine. Item number: 231053