A. B. Guthrie The Way West William Sloane Associates 1949 First Printing
Title: The Way West
Author: A. B. Guthrie
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: William Sloane Associates 1949
Edition: First Printing
Size: 6 x 8.5 * 340 pages
Synopsis: Journalist, historian, and novelist A. B. Guthrie, Jr. (1901 - 1991) received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1950) for this narrative about an overland caravan from Missouri to Oregon. Three maps augment text. They are : Independence to Fort Laramie, Fort Laramie to Fort Hall, and, Fort Hall to Fort Vancouver. A novel about the journey of American expansion in the old west written with keen regard for detail of equipment, custom, speech, and thought of the times. The second novel by the author of "The Big Sky."
Overall Condition: An acceptable reading copy with intact Dust Jacket and clean unmarked text; Ex-Library with numerous stamps and markings in protective Brodart Dust Jacket; rear endpaper partially unglued from text block; scar from pocket removal on rear pastedown = see picture; more images upon request.
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