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Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 0878421645
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Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Americana
ISBN : MSU:31293006580629
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:865554239
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF000267430
Author : Win Blevins,Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Wordworx Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692438807
A Mountain Man Classic The River of the West is easily the most reliable and extensive first-person history ever written of that unique and never-to-be-duplicated era. An extraordinary first-hand account of those who came West and lived with the land. Of all the men who walked the Rocky Mountains a century and a half ago, none other is so completely alive as Joe Meek. This book has been described as a howling yawp of youth and vitality, challenge and danger, exultation and joy. It is all of that and more. Originally published in 1870, this book includes the original illustrations and offers a new introduction, map, notes, bibliography and index. In the first volume of 'The River of the West', The Mountain Years, we meet Joe Meek as a dashing and valiant trapper. In this second volume, The Oregon Years, with the help of his wife Joe comes to light as pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator. Through Meek's wondrous recollections, his memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's formative years, and that of the entire Northwest United States. The struggles of women, Native Americans, missionaries, trappers, early settlers, explorers, and the Hudson's Bay company all shaped a territory, and finally a state. It is fact, but more than that. It's the truth of an era and place. As all good stories are, it is the blend of the objective and what is imaginatively implied about the days when giants roamed the raw West. The issues of life and death were often in the balance, and these were decided by the cool judgment of natural leaders--women and men, Native Americans and whites. Those leaders come through in folk literature as heroic. They were. They were also authentically human and worthy of admiration, flaws and all. Put together, it is the sort of historic memoir that we love, the sort that ennobles us. Editor Win Blevins is an expert on the fur trade era. He has written screenplays about the mountain men. His first book, "Give Your Heart to the Hawks," perhaps the best collection of mountain man adventures and stories, has been in print for forty years. He is the recipient of the 2015 Owen Wister award for lifetime achievement for Literature of the West. He is also in the Western Writers Hall of Fame. "Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best." Tony Hillerman on 'Give Your Heart to the Hawks.' "Blevins possesses a rare skill in masterfully telling a story to paper. He is a true storyteller in the tradition of Naïve people." Lee Francis, Native American Studies, UNM "Blevins shows us the glory years of frontier life, fresh and rich." Kirkus Reviews on "Beauty for Ashes" "One of the finest novels to come out of the American West in a long time. An amazing book, grandly conceived and beautifully written." Dallas Morning News on "Stone Song, The Story of Crazy Horse."
Author : Win Blevins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 163977520X
A first-hand account of the West's most renowned period-the North American fur trade. Step into the untamed world of Joe Meek, a legendary figure of the West's trapper era. Born in rural Virginia in 1810, Meek's journey begins in St. Louis at the age of eighteen, where he embarks on a thrilling career in the fur trade. As a member of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Meek finds himself among the esteemed company of Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, and the Sublette Brothers. In book one, readers are transported to the rugged landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Southwest, experiencing firsthand the challenges and triumphs of a mountain man's rugged life. With vivid descriptions of the wilderness and Meek's unfiltered observations, Win Blevins brings to life a bygone era of adventure and danger in this colorful memoir.
Author : Frances Fuller 1826-1902 Victor
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371398461
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : OCLC:994529438
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Northwest, Pacific
ISBN : OCLC:318409703
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1017044074
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : MRS. FRANCES FULLER. VICTOR
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1033153591
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:185621369
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:755667067
Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Tamarack Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 188065511X
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 a 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. The 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. A facsimile of the original edition published in 1870, this reissue includes the original illustrations and offers a new introduction, map, notes, bibliography, and index.
Author : Mrs. Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528283279
Excerpt from 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 as Account of the Fur Traders, the Indian Tribes, the Overland Immigration When the author of this book has been absorbed in the elegant narratives of Washington Irving, reading and musing over Astoria and Bonneville, in the cozy quiet of a New York study, no prescient motion of the mind ever gave prophetic indication of that personal acquaintance which has since been formed with the scenes, and even with some of the characters which figure In the works just referred to. Yet so have events shaped themselves that to me Astoria is familiar ground, Forts Vancouver and Walla Walla pictured forever In my memory; while such journeys as I have been enabled to make into the country east of the last named fort, have given me a fair insight into the characteristic features of its mountains and its plains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.