Moontrap / by Don Berry ; introduction by Jeff Baker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berry, Don.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shoshoni women.

Willamette River Valley (Or.)--Fiction.

Married people--Fiction.

Married people.

Shoshoni women--Fiction.

Fur trade--Fiction.

Fur trade.

Farm life--Fiction.

Farm life.

Trappers--Fiction.

Trappers.

Oregon--Willamette River Valley.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Western stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvii, 315 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First OSU Press edition.

Place of Publication:

Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2004.

Summary:

"The year is 1850, a transitional period in the new Oregon Territory, with settlers and lawmakers working to subdue the untamed region. Johnson Monday, a former mountain man, has been living on a bend of the Willamette River near Oregon City for seven years with his Shoshone Indian wife, struggling to make a place in settled society. One day, Webster T. Webster, a raucous, unrepentant trapper, arrives for an unexpected visit. With his earthy humor and stubborn adherence to the simple life, "Webb" leads Monday through adventures that flirt dangerously close to lawlessness, while helping him to rediscover his moral center. Through defiance, triumph, and tragedy, Moontrap follows Johnson Monday as he realizes that relinquishing the stark honesty of mountain life for the compromises of civilization may be too high a price to pay."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0870710397

9780870710391

OCLC:

54759456