Pierce, Henry H., Lieut.:

$2,250 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

REPORT OF AN EXPEDITION FROM FORT COLVILLE TO PUGET SOUND, WASHINGTON TERRITORY, BY WAY OF LAKE CHELAN AND SKAGIT RIVER, DURING THE MONTHS OF AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER, ... First edition of Pierce's account of his expedition in the North Cascades. "Pierce's route was from West to East...not more than fifty or sixty miles south of the Canadian boundary....He crossed the Cascades at or near the Cascade Pass of modern maps and reached the Skagit at its confluence with the Cascade river. The account is well written and doubtless, as Pierce says, this was the first time the journey had been made by a white man but it is doubtful of [sic]there were any geographical discoveries of importance. The sportsman will be interested in various references to mountain goats, wild geese and tufted grouse. Neither New Fort Colville or old Fort Colville, about 17 miles to the north on the Columbia River are shown on modern maps" - Streeter.Scarce in commerce – we trace only four copies of this work at auction over the last fifty years.

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