An edition of The river of the West (1870)

The river of the West

life and adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, embracing events in the life-time of a mountain-man and pioneer, with the early history of the north-western slope, including an account of the fur traders, the Indian tribes, the overland immigration, the Oregon missions and the tragic fate of Rev. Dr. Whitman and family : also, a description of the country; its condition, prosects, and resources, its soil; climate and scenery; its mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts and plains; its inland waters and natural wonders

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An edition of The river of the West (1870)

The river of the West

life and adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, embracing events in the life-time of a mountain-man and pioneer, with the early history of the north-western slope, including an account of the fur traders, the Indian tribes, the overland immigration, the Oregon missions and the tragic fate of Rev. Dr. Whitman and family : also, a description of the country; its condition, prosects, and resources, its soil; climate and scenery; its mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts and plains; its inland waters and natural wonders

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v. 1 : The Mountain Years: Joe Meek is one of the West's irresistible characters -- dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, frolicsome as a grizzly cub. Unlike so many of the West's other great characters, he comes down to us not as myth, says the editor, but as "simply a right kind of fella." It is our good luck that Joe knew how to yarn his mountain experiences truly and colorfully and with only a mite of stretching, and that he happened to cross trails with a professional writer who had the sense to see the worth of his tale as Joe told it, in the raw. The result of the collaboration of Joe and Frances Fuller Victor is The River of the West, first published in 1870 and now brought back into print after being mostly unavailable for a century. This first of two volumes of The River of the West deals with Joe's years as one of the legendary mountain men, the fur trappers of the Rocky Mountains. - Jacket flap.

v. 2: The Oregon Years: Here Joe Meek continues his collaboration with Frances Fuller Victor, telling the story of his own colorful life and the tale of his times in The River of the West, a memoir that proved immediately and enduringly popular upon its publication more than a century ago. In the first half of their book, published as Volume One of this new edition, Meek and Mrs. Victor presented the young Joe in his role as a dashing and gallant trapper. In this volume they show him as a pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, even legislator -- Citizen Joe. Through Meek's pungent recollections, his engaging memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's turbulent formative years -- the struggles of the missionaries, the other early settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Indians that shaped a territory and finally a state. - Jacket flap.

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331

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1983, Mountain Press Pub. Co., Scurlock Pub Co, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Mountain Press
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Edition Notes

"Published by subscription only."

Filmed from a copy of the original publication held by the University of British Columbia Library. Ottawa : Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions, 1981.

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Hartford, Conn, Newark, N.J
Series
CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series -- no. 16342

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Dewey Decimal Class
917.8

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Format
Microform
Pagination
7 microfiches (331 fr.)
Number of pages
331

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OL21675764M
ISBN 10
0665163428

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