LAVENDER, DAVID — The Big Divide

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1949. Hardcover. David Lavender's second published non-fiction work is a story of the people and places in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Wyoming along the Continental Divide. In a series of essays, the author focuses on particular aspects of the region's history, such as the early mountain men, gold rushes, building of railroads and agricultural development. With maps of the region to endpapers. --- A later printing, in full green cloth-covered boards with cover and spine titling on navy blocks. Volume wrapped dust jacket with color photo of Snowmass Lake in Colorado to front panel. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to half title page, a cover corner bump and with tape adhesive residue to endpapers & cloth, else a tightly-bound, sound copy. Unclipped jacket with two prior owner's signatures to front flap and more tape residue, but remaining bright, intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; x, 321 pages. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .