Carpenter, Frank D. (Additional Material By Heister Dean Guie & Lucullus Virgil McWhorter).
Adventures in Geyser Land (Reprinted From: the Wonders of Geyser Land)
Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID: 1935. - 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 in. green HB with silver print, endpaper maps, fold-out map, 318 pp., b&w photos. A very good-minus, ex-lib, tight copy with no external lib. markings; lib. stamps on endpapers; lib pocket & written date on front pastedown, otherwise unmarked; bumped corners & spine ends with mild fraying; small scratch on cover; front cover opens flat but endpapers not cracked in gutter. No jacket. 1 lb. 3 oz. Hardbound VG-/no DJ Story of Yellowstone National Park in 1877 during the Northwestern Indian War when the Nez Perces fled the military & encountered two group of tourists. One tourist was Carpenter, whose 1878 book was Wonders of Geyser Land. Facsimilies of the original title pg. & frontispiece are included in this edition with the addition of a preface, notes, appendices & illustrations by Guie & McWhorter. The supplementary notes are also mostly from first sources. Pagination of original edition is provided in brackets. [Attributes: Hard Cover]
[Bookseller: PageTurners, Inc.]
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