About this title: The Year of Decision is the first volume in Bernard DeVoto's monumental trilogy that brilliantly, boldly, and evocatively tells the story of the antebellum American West.
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Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co., Boston
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No Jacket. Hard Back. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. The hard cover has light shelf wear but has fade. Light yellowing to the pages........The book may have minor flaws that may have gone unnoticed.... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SENTRY BOOKS
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. Binding is tight and square. Text is clean and bright. Ex-library copy with typical markings and attachments. Careful packaging and fast shipping. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good in fair dust jacket. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 538 p. American Heritage Library. Audience: General/trade. Edgewear, soft corners, DJ shows average wear for a book of this age, still a good reader, 72 read more
Edition: Unabridged.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1960
ISBN-13:9780395083604ISBN:0395083605
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover is creased & book label inside cover. No highlighting or underlining. Trade paperback (US). Sentry Edition, 11. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 1943
Description: Fair. Hardback Edition, Tight Binding, Dust Jacket shows wear with a number of small tears and frayed edges covered in Mylar protector, No Writing Inside. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Cloth sewn binding; binding and pages tight and clean; pages tanned some edge fading on spine and cover. 524p., 22 cm. Index. Bibliography An insightful analysis of a pivotal year in American history. A 'must read" for those interested in the history of the United States of America. read more
Description: Good. Only good, with more than average condition problems for its age. Book has been read but remains straight clean and tight. No internal markings but for former owner's name inside front cover. DJ is g, extensive wear to edges, corners and covers, brodart plastic protection damage to head and heel of spine, pencil tip sized open tear top front edge. Fore edge is uncut, remainder mark. Hardcover. 1943 Hardcover w / dustjacket. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown, Boston
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and binding is good, considering age. Ex-libris inside front cover. Cover is in good condition, with usual wear. Spine is faded. 524p., Index. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Faded blue cover and pages showing slight wear on edges and corners. A book about American history revolving around the basic courage and honor in the face of adversity. read more
"I read this in college. Borrowed my parents' copy from 1943 or some such year.
He was so thorough. Did anything happen in 1846 that he didn't cover? Probably not.
Possibly a little too thorough when it came to the details of the Donner Party. That part was just revolting. To find out real details of what starvation can drive people to. And how stupidity can really put you in danger.
But when, I think it was John Reade, was walking off, determined to get to civilization or freeze in the process, I just wanted to yell at the rest of the party - "go with him! go with him!" But they didn't. And some tried but didn't make it very far. It was just a sad chapter. But they just wouldn't listen to sage advice earlier in the trip when the final outcome could still have been averted."
"Bernard DeVoto is one of the most thoroughly researched historical writers of the antebellum period that I've read. He is especially knowledgable about this period as it pretains to the American west. This book starts out a little slow and a bit odd as he warns you, but it lays a solid foundation for the rest of the book. DeVoto has pulled together so many accounts from personal diaries that the individual stories he tells within the historical context of events are as close to being there as I can imagine. Communication in western North America in1846 was painfully slow, with Fremont in California, Taylor in Texas, Karney somewhere in Nebraska and emigrants along the Oregon trail, no one know what the other was doing. So at the closing of many of his chapters DeVoto takes the characters you've been following in totally separate circumstances and events and tells you exactly what each person was doing on a particular day in that year. It really gives you a sense of the continuity of events. How or why some acted the way they did because they lacked the knowledge of events that may be taking place that very day. His other two books in this trilogy , The Course of Empire and Across the Wide Missouri are just as good. Enjoy!"
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