Passing through the Garden: Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest

by John Logan Allen

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition

Urbana, IL : U. of Illinois Press, c1975 . First edition. Small 4to 26 cm . xxvi, 2 , 412 pp. Maps, facsimiles, table. How Lewis and Clark altered the image of the northwest as a “splendid garden and agricultural paradise” to a more realistic view of the mountains and the “bleak winter coast.” Green cloth, gilt spine title, decorated dust jacket. Very good. Item #69540

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