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Title: Fry's Traveler's Guide, and Descriptive Journal of the Great North-Western Territories of the United States of America; Comprising the Territories of Idaho, Washington, Montana, and the State of Oregon, with Sketches of Colorado, Utah, Nebraska, and British America. Author: Fry, F[rederick]. Place: Cincinnati Publisher: For the author, by Applegate & Co Date: 1865 Description: 264 + [24] ad pp. (8vo) original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. Pencil inscription "with the Compliments of the Author" on front endpaper. Fry traveled to Oregon in 1862 via Fort Connor and Fort Hall, and spent some time as a school teacher in western Washington Territory before returning east via British Columbia and the recently discovered mining regions of northern Idaho and western Montana; Howes points out that his account comprises the "earliest accounts of the Idaho and Montana mines, visited in 1862 to 1864." Graff 1457; Howes F398; Sabin 26094; Smith 3380; Wagner-Camp 416. Lot Amendments Condition: Binding worn and soiled; foxing; good. Item number: 261306