Boller, Henry A.:

$4,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

AMONG THE INDIANS. EIGHT YEARS IN THE FAR WEST: 1858–1866. EMBRACING SKETCHES OF MONTANA AND SALT LAKE. First edition of the "[m]ost authoritative narrative of fur-trading among the plains Indians of the upper Missouri, for the period" (Howes). Boller entered the fur trade on the Upper Missouri in 1858, in the service of the American Fur Company. Most of the book deals with his experiences with the Indians in Montana as a trader for the company. His account is one of the most vivid and well-written narratives of the trade, and one of the few relating to the particular period it addresses. At the end of his sojourn in the West, Boller spent some time in Utah among the Mormons. Although this book bears an imprint of 1868, it was probably printed the year before, as Graff owned a copy that was inscribed on October 31, 1867. Wheat describes the map as notable for the places located and described in the text. It shows Montana and the Dakotas, with parts of Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and Nebraska.

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