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[ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY]. -- [WESTERN AMERICANA]. HAFEN, LeRoy R., editor. The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West. Glendale, CA: The Arthur C. Clarke Company, 1965–1970.
10 volumes, 8vo. Numerous illustrations from photographs, sketches, drawings and paintings, folding map in Volume I. Original gilt–lettered brown cloth, uncut; all with original plain paper jackets.
FIRST EDITION, one of approximately 2,000 copies. “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 108). Rare in this condition.