Across the Wide Missouri by Bernard DeVoto-used ex-library, good

• Publisher: Bonanza Books (A division of Crown Publishers)

• Original Copyright: 1947 by Houghton Mifflin Company

• Format: Hardcover with Dust Jacket (Reprint Edition)

• Accoutrements: Includes an account of the discovery of the Alfred Jacob Miller watercolor collection by Mae Reed Porter.

This book is a monumental work of American history. It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1948 and the Bancroft Prize. It covers the peak of the Rocky Mountain fur trade (1833–1838), detailing the lives of mountain men, trappers, and Native American tribes. It is famous for featuring the vibrant, firsthand watercolors of Alfred Jacob Miller, who actually traveled west in 1837.

Condition: Good "Reading Copy." The dust jacket is intact but shows some standard edge-wear, and it has been protected or reinforced with tape at the edges/