The River of the West: The Adventures of Joe Meek: Volume Two: The Oregon Years (Classics of the Fur Trade Series)

Here Joe Meek continues his collaboration with Frances Fuller Victor, telling the story of his own colorful life and the tale of his times. This is a memoir that has proved immediately and endearingly popular upon its publication more than a century ago through the present day. In this volume, Meek is shown is his roles as pioneer, sheriff, U. S. Marshall, even legislator--Citizen Joe. Through Meek's pungent recollections, his engaging memoir also becomes an important history of Oregon's turbulent formative years--the struggles of the missionaries, the other early settlers, the Hudson's Bay Company, and the Indians that shaped a territory and finally a state.