The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek - Vol. Two - The Oregon Years

Missoula, Montana: Mountain Press Publishing Company - A Cooper Mountain Book, 1985. Third Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6" x 9. 382 Pages Indexed. January 1987 Edition. Minor cover edge wear and turned up front corners. No marks or stamps and interior text is faultless. Joe Meek is one of the West's irresistible characters - dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, more fun than a playful 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 Frances Fuller Victor, who had the sense to see the worth of his tale as Joe told it, in the raw. This is the second of two volumes of The River of the West series that deals with Joe's years in the Overland Immigration to Oregon and the tragic fate of Rev. Dr. Whitman and Family . This is a facsimile of the original edition published in 1870, this reissue includes the original illustrations and offers a new Introduction, Map, Notes, and Bibliography. The River of the West is the first volume in the series, Classics of the Fur Trade. This book is from the Jack McK. Pardee Collection. Mr. Pardee was a collector of Americana who focused on frontier and natural history, hunting, wildlife, and firearms and is noted not only for his book selections but for their careful handling and storage. Most of his collection had faultless interior pages. E-mail for more information regarding the Pardee collection.