Across the Wide Missouri (Used Hardcover) - Bernard DeVoto Fiction originally published in 1886

originally published in 1886

A charming and moving debut memoir about how a man with a mystery illness saves a pigeon

With its incisive observation and brilliant cultural analysis

loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother

Across the Wide Missouri (Used Hardcover) - Bernard DeVoto Fiction originally published in 1886Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West. Condition: No dustjacket. Writing on inside cover page. Pages and binding in good condition. Copyright 1947