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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, prospects, and resources, its soil, climate and scenery, its mountains, rivers, valleys, deserts and plains, its inland waters and natural wonders

by: Victor, Frances Fuller, 1826-1902

Publication date: 1870

Topics: Meek, Joseph Lafayette, 1810-1875, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life -- West (U.S.), Northwest, Pacific -- Description and travel, Northwest, Pacific -- History, West (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860

Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Columbian Book Co. ; Newark, N.J. : Bliss & Co.

Collection: internetarchivebooks

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

"Published by subscription only."

A large portion of this work was afterwards published in her Eleven years in the Rocky mountains

References: Eberstadt no. II-288

References: Howes, U.S. IANA, no. V.89

Listed in: The Washington 89 / by George H. Tweney

Also available online through the Washington State Library Internet website on the Classics in Washington History page http://www.sos.wa.gov/history/publications.aspx

602 p., [12] leaves of plates : 22 cm