MY LIFE IN THE MOUNTAINS AND ON THE PLAINS - The Newly Discovered Autobiography by Meriwether, David - 1966

Norman: U. Of Ok., 1965. D.j., 301 pp., illus., index. Autobiography of Virginia-Kentucky frontiersman, mountain man, plainsman & territorial governor of New Mexico. Meriwether began dictating his autobiography in 1886 at the age of 86 but it was lost for many years.. 1st.. Cloth. Near Fine/Fine.

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Book. G-VG. Hard Cover (x-library). 1st Printing. Large Octavo. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Dust jacket in plastic sleeve, glued to end papers..

University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. 2nd printing. Light soiling to page edges; fading to jacket at spine..

University of Oklahoma Press, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Light edge wear to price-clipped jacket. .

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. 1st . Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Edited with introduction by Robert A. Griffen.This is volume 46 in the American Exploration and Travel Series. Includes bibliography and index.

University of Oklahoma Press. hardcover. Very Good. 9x5x1.

Norman OK: University Of Oklahoma Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. The American Exploration and Travel Series. Meriwether is best known for his service as governor of New Mexico Territory but this autobiography relates much of his exciting life as an explorer of the upper Missouri area in the first half of the nineteenth century. 301pp. DJ in Brodart jacket protector. All dust jackets are in Mylar acid-free protectors.; 8vo .

University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. hardcover. Very Good. 9x5x1.

Norman, Oklahoma:: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965.. 1st Edition, so stated.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: brown cloth with black and gilt spine decorations, the top edge tint is a pale red; one corner is bumped, otherwise a Near Fine book, with a Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. The jacket is very good but for a scuff and stain on the spine (about the size of a fifty cent piece).. 8vo (about 9.25 inches tall) . Bibliography, index. Description: Includes six double sided black and white plates. David Meriwether was the territorial governor of New Mexico from 1853 to 1857. His accomplishments as governor are well recorded and frequently cited by historians. However, the events of his life prior to that time had been largely unknown. David Meriwether's life up to that point was a remarkable one -- in 1819 he went to the Upper Missouri under contract to Colonel John O'Fallon; in 1820 he saw Santa Fe as a prisoner of the Spaniards; he lived with three companions… Read More

Norman, Ok: University of Oklahoma Press, 1965. Attractive, clean copy. Brown textured cloth with four colors used on spine with some gilt design is fresh, clean and sharp. Textblock tight and square. No markings. Price intact jacket has edgewear at base of spine with some minor paper loss and faint rubbing on rear panel. No chips, tears or creasing. Meriwether was a frontiersman, mountain man, plainsman and territorial governor of New Mexico enjoyed a career matched by few in his time in the first sixty years of the nineteenth century. This was dictated to his grandaughter at the age of 86 and the manuscript descended to a great granddaughter and its survival has made possible the publication of the important piece of Western Americana seventy nine years after it was written. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.