DRURY, Clifford Merrill, introductions & editorial notes. First White Women Over the Rockies. Diaries, Letters, and Biographical Sketches of the Six Women of the Oregon Mission who Made the Overland Journey in 1836 and 1838.
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3 vols.; 280, 382 & 332 pp.; 8vo; light blue cloth; plain paper dust jackets; top edges stained blue, other edges untrimmed; illustrations; maps, one folding; portraits. Glendale: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1963 & 1966. First Editions. Clark, Americana Century 76. [Northwest Historical Series VI, VII, and VIII.] Volume I. Mrs. Marcus Whitman, Mrs. Henry H. Spalding, Mrs. William H. Grey, and Mrs. Asa B. Smith. Vol. II. Mrs. Elkanah Walker and Mrs. Cushing Eells. Vol. III. Diary of Sarah White Smith (Mrs. Asa B. Smith), Letters of Asa B. Smith and other documents relating to the 1838 Reenforcement to the Oregon Mission. "As pioneering studies of women in the West, [the volumes] were far ahead of their time . . . It was not until after the publication of volumes I & II that the diary of Sarah White Smith was discovered, and together with various letters which had surfaced, it was issued three years later. These women were pioneers in the truest sense of the word, living in a world completely foreign to them after a trans - continental journey, the route of which was still in large part being discovered and developed. The set contains rich and valuable source material." [Clark]. Light offset tanning endpapers of vol. III from paper jacket flap; Overall about fine condition. |
