Broken Hand The Life Story of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Chief Of The Mountain Men

Denver, Col.: The Old West Publishing Company, 1931. First Edition. Very near fine in its original ribbed, green cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine and gilt text with bands on the front board. A small quarto of 9 1/4 by 6 inches with a whitish stain to the lower quarter of this copy and an early prior owner's name and date of "1931" at the upper edge of the front paste down. Without a dust jacket. 316 pages including an index, chapter notes, appendix and text. Illustrated with a frontispiece of Fitzpatrick and nine plates from photographs and one two page map. Thomas Fitzpatrick (1799-1834) "Of the three outstanding "mountain men" of the trapper and early emigrant periods - the first-named was esteemed by his contemporaries as the greatest and the most capable." DAB, Vol III, p443. This title is considered by Howes to be "quite scarce". (Howes, H-10) (Inventory #: TB33394)