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Author: Gunnison, J[ames] W[illiam]
Title: The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints, in the Valley of the Great Salt Lake: A History of Their Rise and Progress, Peculiar Doctrines, Present Condition, and Prospects, Derived from Personal Observation during a Residence Among Them.
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
Date Published: 1852
Description:

ix, [2], 14-168 + 27 ad pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece (of Nauvoo). (8vo) 18.5x11 cm (7½x4½") original embossed cloth, gilt spine. First Edition.

Lieutenant Gunnison was an assistant to Howard Stansbury in the first survey of the Great Salt Lake basin by the Army's Topographical Engineers. His experiences among the Mormon's led him to write this fairly positive account; he was killed in 1853 while leading a party in the Sevier Lake region by a band of Paiutes purportedly led by or accompanied by Mormons, although to this day the truth in the matter has not been established. Flake 3746; Graff 1694; Howes G463; Wagner-Camp 213:1

Some wear to cloth with light rubbing to extremities, fading to spine and edges, some spots to spine, cloth fraying at spine head; foxing throughout, including frontispiece; very good.