The Rocky mountains, or, Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the far West
By: by Washington Irving
Publisher: Lea & Blanchard
Published: 1843
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Description and travel
Other titles: Scenes, incidents, and adventures in the far West.
Notes: Spine title: The Rocky mountains.

First ed. published in London in 1837 by Bentley; and later in the United States under the title: Adventures of Captain Bonneville, or, Scenes beyond the Rocky mountains of the far West.

Two maps on folded leaves at front of each volume

"Digested from the journal of Captain B.L.E. Bonneville, of the army of the United States, and illustrated from various other sources."

"Explorations and fur-trade operations from Green river to Salt Lake and Walla Walla, 1832-5, including the first account of the trapping expedition over the Sierras to California, led by 'Joe' Walker." -- Howes, U.S.IANA, I 85.