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(Frémont, John Charles) EGAN, FEROL. Frémont explorer for a restless nation [by] Ferol Egan. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1977. 23.3x14.8 cm (octavo), pp. [i-vii] viii [ix-xi] xii-xv [xvi] [1] 2-582 [583-584: blank], illustrations, endpaper maps, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, fore-edge rough trimmed. First edition. Signed on the the half title page by Egan. Frémont's winter 1844 east to west crossing of the Sierra Nevada, pages 200-222. Includes extensive "notes," pages [525]-558, and a useful "bibliographic essay," pages [559]-561. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with several short closed tears along the top edge. (#166108).