Description
Limited edition of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard: Fur Trader and Trapper 1831-1836, edited by W.F. Wagner.
Octavo, 317pp, [6]. Blue cloth, title in gilt on spine. From a limited edition of 520 copies, as stated on limitation page. Complete with frontispiece fold-out map and five additional illustrations. Some foxing to endpapers, scattered foxing throughout text block. Text block stable. Lacking the scarce dust jacket. (Howes L264aa) (Currey & Kruska 235) (Rader 2217)
From the collection of C.G. Littell, with note on front endpaper stating that “my original Zenas Leonard sold for $789.00 at Parke Bernet, Feb. 5th, 1944.”
This work was reprinted from the scarce 1839 account of Zenas Leonard’s firsthand description of the Joseph Reddeford Walker expedition to California.
Zenas Leonard (1809–1857) was an American frontiersman, explorer, and fur trapper. Leonard joined a fur-trading expedition in 1831 that took him across the Rocky Mountains, where he spent several years trapping, trading, and living among Native American tribes. His detailed journal offers one of the earliest firsthand accounts of life in the American West, describing encounters with tribes such as the Crow, Blackfeet, and Nez Perce, as well as the hardships of overland travel, survival, and hunting.
