Across the Wide Missouri (Used Hardcover) - Bernard DeVoto Fiction A charming and moving debut

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

There was Catherine served and saved

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

The Hooded Hawk Mystery

Across the Wide Missouri (Used Hardcover) - Bernard DeVoto Fiction A charming and moving debutWinner 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