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</noinclude>THE RIVER OP THE WEST.
Thirty Tears of Life and Adventure
IN" THE
ROOKY MOUNTAINS AND OREGON.
By Mrs. FRANCIS FULLER VICTOR.
A Ilhtory of the North Western Slope, with graphic accounts of the Indian
Trif)c«,the Pur-traders, the Oregon Missionaries and their tragic fate, tht
Emigrants, and Early Times in Oregon. With events in the life-time of a Rocky
Mountain hunter, and Oregon pioneer, andafull description of tlis Country on
the line of the
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.
All the varied information which this book gives is grouped around the
personal history of Joseph L. Meek, one of those remarkable men who be-
came Mountaineers, Indian traders and Sentinels on the outposts of Civiliza-
tion, in the heroic epoch when Oregon was redeemed from the wilds of na-
ture, to be come the home of Civilized Man.
The reader will be charmed by the descriptive portions of the book, fasci-
nated by the narrative of thrilling personal adventures and experiences, and
highly amused by the ludicrous and humorous scenes, incidents, and anec-
dotes with which the work abounds, while the historical events recorded will
be perused with intense interest and gratification by all.
Finely Illustrated with Numerous Engravings.
" The River of the West" is the title of a stately volume from the pen of
Mrs. Francis Fuller Victor, contributor to the Overland Monthly and other
periodicals. She is well qualified for the task she has undertaken, possess-
ing, in a rare degree, the investigating, analytical and judicial faculty. Much
— indeed, we might say most of her information is derived from the lips of
those who were actors in the scenes she describes. Of these her special pet
and hero is Joseph L. Meek, whose adventurous career is graphically sketch-
ed. She presents him to our wondering gaze as the Bayard of the forest, a
man without fear, if not without reproach As drawn by her partial pen he is
the embodiment of all that is most heroic, the most excellent, the most dough-
ty, the most dare-devil, the most seductive in the frontiersman. His career is
indeed a remarkable one.*#*Tkat the book will prove popular there can be lit-
tle doubt. It is attractive in style, attractive in method, attractive in its make
up, attractive in printing, binding and illustration. — Evening Bulletin, San
Francisco, XJal.
It is crammed with stirring adventure, and picturesque description, and in-
deed has a very considerable historical value as enclosing and perpetuating so
many remarkable 'illustrations of a kind of life which is rapidly fading off" the
face of our country The artist and engraver have been called into liberal
requisition. — New York Independent.
Of the contents of the book we may say that, containing as it does, the life
and adventures of the best living specimens of the mountain-man of a period
when the great mountain and desert regions of the West were the scenes of
the wildest romance and adventure, they could not fail to be most deeply in-
teresting even if written by the clumsiest of pens ; but when told in the easy,
graceful, narrative style which Mrs. Victor understands so well, the story is
frequently thrilling, and always captivating. — "Oregonian," Portland, Oregon.
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COLUMBIAN BOOK CO., Hartford, Conn.
W. E. BLISS, Toledo, Ohio.
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