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Trappers of the West. / Fred Reinfeld. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Tehon Collection F592 .R4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reinfeld, Fred, 1910-1964.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- West (U.S.)--History.
- West (U.S.).
- Frontier and pioneer life--West (U.S.)--Juvenile literature.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Trapping.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 153 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Manufacture:
- Binghamton, N. Y. : Manufactured by the Vail-Ballou Press.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Y Crowell Company, [1957]
- Summary:
- Details of the trappers' daily lives: how they hunted, what they wore, what supplies they carried, how they traveled, how they trapped beaver. It tells the history behind the trappers. Included are individual accounts of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, John Colter, Old Bill Williams, and Jed Smith.
- Notes:
- "First Printing."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 2498242
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