Description

Binfords & Mort, Published 1936. Hardcover, 448 pp.; 21 cm. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Pale yellow cloth boards, lettered in black on front and spine with black rule decoration; mild shelf and edge wear, with light scuffing and soiling to the covers, a few small nicks to the cloth at the corner tips and the head and foot of the spine, and mild bumping to the edges. Binding tight. Text block clean and unmarked, the pages lightly toned. Complete with the index. Contents: Book I, When Red Men Ruled; Book II, Into the West; Book III, The Red Head Chief; with index. Eva Emery Dye's sweeping historical novel of the Lewis and Clark expedition, first published in 1902 and widely credited as the book that rescued Sacagawea from historical obscurity and carried her into national fame. Dye, an Oregon City author and regional historian, framed the story as what her foreword calls "the Iliad of the West." This is the Portland edition from Binfords & Mort, printed by the firm's own Metropolitan Press, the imprint that became Oregon's foremost publisher of Pacific Northwest history.