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[FUR TRADING] HAFEN, LeRoy R., editor. The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West... Glendale: Arthur H. Clark Company, 1965/72. 10 volume set including index. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, one of approx. 2,000 sets. Numerous illustrations from photographs, sketches, drawings, paintings; folding map in Vol. I. Publisher’s brown cloth, spines gilt lettered (light rubbing at ends; else a near fine set). Clark and Brunet, 108. "This series was Hafen's final major work in the field of western American history. Together with noted scholars and history buffs from throughout the country, he compiled biographies of the major male figures in the fur trade of the Far West...The account of the fur trade written by Dr. Hafen and included in volume I provides an excellent background study of the development of the fur trade" (Clark and Brunet).