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: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 1943
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours. No dust jacket., 850grams, ISBN: read more
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: Hardcover
Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN
Date Published: 1943
Description: Published by LITTLE, BROWN in 1943, 538 pages, hardback with D/J, tall size, good in poor D/W, faded, wear to edges, hinges cracked internally, corners bumped, wear to head & tail of spine. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: MIFFLIN
Date Published: 1943
Description: Published by MIFFLIN in 1943, hardback (no D/J), medium size, maps as end papers, page edges brownish, spine sunned & faded, previous owners inscription, boards creased to head and tail of spine, internally good. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. 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
Description: Good. This is a used book in good condition with normal wear and tear and may contain some writing, minor shelf ware and creases. Items are uploaded via ISBN and stock photo may be different from actual book cover. Usually ships within 1-2 business days. read more
Description: Good. Light shelving wear with minimal damage to cover and bindings. Pages show minor use. Help save a tree. Buy all your used books from Green Earth Books. Read. Recycle and Reuse! read more
Binding: Buckram
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, Boston
Date Published: 1943
Description: Near Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Original blue cloth, faded at backstrip. Map endpapers. A near very good reading copy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company, Boston
Date Published: 1943
Description: Good+ in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book is clean, straight and relatively tight. The pages have started to darken. There is bumping to spine. Dust jacket has wrinkling, edgewear, chipping and small tears along top and bottom edges especially at spine and corners. 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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