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An edition of The river of the West (1870)

The river of the West

the adventures of Joe Meek

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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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The river of the West: the adventures of Joe Meek
1983, Mountain Press Pub. Co., Scurlock Pub Co, Mountain Press Publishing Company, Mountain Press
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Table of Contents

v. 1. The mountain years / edited by Winfred Blevins.
Introduction / Winifred Blevins
Introduction [original]
Astoria
Early life of Meek
The camp in motion
How beaver are taken
Removal to Powder River
Grizzly bears
Annoying competition
The march to the Humboldt
A visit from Blackfeet
In the Camanche country
Gossip at Rendezvous
In the Blackfoot country
Setting up as a family man
Visitors at Rendezvous
Meek falls into the hands of Crows
An express from Fitzpatrick
The den of rattlesnakes
A dissipated camp
Decline of the fur trade
A chat about buffalo hunting
The solitary trapper
A new start in life
v. 2. The Oregon years / edited by Lee Nash.
Introduction / Lee Nash
A new start in life
Westward ho!
Wealth of the Methodist Mission
Scarcity of employment
The brooding of events
The plot thickens
Arrival of the immigration at the Dalles
Excitement about Indians
The Oregon City land-claim
The American organization
Difficulty of collecting taxes
Colonial gossip
The beginning of Oregon commerce
The up-country Indians
The tragedy at Waiilatpu
Horrors of the Waiilatpu massacre
The call to arms
Meek's party
Meed dines at Coleman's
Mr. Thornton as representative of Oregon
Meek appointed U.S. Marshal for Oregon
If this were a novel
Lane's course with the Cayuse Indians
Meek as a U.S. Marshal
The Northern Pacific Railroad
Washington Territory
The Columbia River
Montana Territory
General remarks on the North-west

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.
"A Copper Mountain, Inc. book"--V. 1; "A Copper Mountain Books, Inc., book"--V. 2.
Reprint. Originally published: Hartford, Conn. : R.W. Bliss, 1870.
v. 1 c1983, 282 p. ; v. 2 c1985, 382 p.

Published in
Missoula
Series
Classics of the fur trade series
Copyright Date
v. 1 c1983, v. 2 c1985.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
979.5/03
Library of Congress
F852.M48 V52 1983

Contributors

Editor
Winfred Blevins
Editor
Lee Nash

The Physical Object

Pagination
2 v.
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3169297M
Internet Archive
riverofwestadven0000vict
ISBN 10
0878421645, 0878421653, 0878421785, 0878421793
LCCN
83011399
Library Thing
7753091
Amazon ID (ASIN)
Goodreads
3899258
3144401
2629562
5614254

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