Across the Wide Missouri (The Franklin Library of Pulitzer Prize Classics)

Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Foreword by Mae Reed Porter, illustrations from paintings by Alfred Jacob Miller and Charles Bodmer. "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West."