Offered in this lot is this First Edition of "Across The Wide Missouri", Bernard DeVoto, 1947, Houghton Mifflin Company publisher, illustrated with paintings by Alfred Jacob MIller, Charles Bodmer and George Catlin. Pulitzer Prize-winning 1947 book that chronicles the peak and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade in the 1830s, focusing on the rivalry between the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. It vividly portrays the life of mountain men like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson, the economics of the trade, and the interactions with Native American tribes, arguing that this era shaped American materialism and westward expansion. Beyond mere business history, it explores the fur trade as a "way of life" and argues that these early networks shaped American materialism and the subsequent westward expansion. Bernard Augustine DeVoto (1897-1955) was an American historian, conservationist, essayist, columnist, teacher, editor, and reviewer. He was the author of a series of Pulitzer-Prize-winning popular histories of the American West and for many years wrote The Easy Chair, an influential column in Harper's Magazine. The beige cloth bound hardcover is in good overall condition, slight soiling exhibited on covers. Intact pages exhibit age tanning. Measures 6.75"W x 9.75"L x 1.5"D, weight is 2lb, 2oz.