Mountain

1967 · ref. 62782 — Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1967. 8vo. xviii 446 pp. With numerous photo plates maps maps on endpapers. Biege-gray cloth black lettering front cover & spine slight dustsoiling shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art photo of Garcia front cover Garcia’s Native American wives on back cover In-who-lise Squis-squis and Mal-lit-tay-lay minor chipping head & foot of spine fore-edges closed tear to spine still NF/VG- copy. First edition 2nd printing of this famed posthumously published semi-autobiographical memoir prepared and edited by Stein from Garcia’s original writings famously kept secure in dynamite boxes. Garcia 1855-1943 famously was a Mountain Man who set up a trading company centered on the Musselshell River and spent nine years of that life living with the Pend d’Oreille Indigenous Peoples who married three different Native American women beginning with In-who-lise his Nez Perce wife who was surviving witness of the Battle of Big Hole. Later David Stein the son of Ben Stein had access to the tightly held original manuscript and Diane Smith also granted access both interpreted the treatment by Garcia of his Native American wives and his intent to preserve their memories. Controversy over the editing process just how much of the memoir actually took place and factual elements persist but the work is still a compelling read. See: Kathryn Kramer The Romantic Tale of “Tough Trip Through Paradise” Montana Historical Society April 6 2013. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover