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Author: Hafen, LeRoy and W.J. Ghent
Title: Broken Hand: The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief of the Mountain Men
Place Published: Denver
Publisher:The Old West Publishing Company
Date Published: 1931
Description: xi, [4], 16-316 pp. Illustrated from prints and photographs including frontispiece. 23.5x15.5 cm (9¼x6¼"), original green cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by W.J. Ghent. "The story of thirty years of trailblazing and pioneering in the region beyond the Mississippi, a narrative summary of the opening and winning of the Far West, embodied and reflected in the career of a great explorer, trapper, guide and Indian agent. This, the only biography of Thomas Fitzpatrick, is an important contribution to the history of the West, and a book which will appeal to the general reader - a chronicle of the days of the trappers' exuberant annual rendezvous, hazardous journeys, Indian battles, the war of the fur companies, the conquest of California and New Mexico, the overland migrations -- in short, of great adventures. " (Publisher's brochure).
Author: Hafen, LeRoy and W.J. Ghent
Title: Broken Hand: The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief of the Mountain Men
Place Published: Denver
Publisher:The Old West Publishing Company
Date Published: 1931
Description: xi, [4], 16-316 pp. Illustrated from prints and photographs including frontispiece. 23.5x15.5 cm (9¼x6¼"), original green cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by W.J. Ghent. "The story of thirty years of trailblazing and pioneering in the region beyond the Mississippi, a narrative summary of the opening and winning of the Far West, embodied and reflected in the career of a great explorer, trapper, guide and Indian agent. This, the only biography of Thomas Fitzpatrick, is an important contribution to the history of the West, and a book which will appeal to the general reader - a chronicle of the days of the trappers' exuberant annual rendezvous, hazardous journeys, Indian battles, the war of the fur companies, the conquest of California and New Mexico, the overland migrations -- in short, of great adventures. " (Publisher's brochure).
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Faint rubbing to cloth; near fine.
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Inscribed and signed by W.J. Ghent
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