The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964. First Edition. 331pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] Purple cloth with silver stamped titles on the backstrip. Near fine/Near fine. Price clipped jacket. Wallace Stegner's work on the great Mormon Trek from Nauvoo to the Great Basin in 1846-1847, and the steady migration that followed it out of the Platte Valley and across the mountains for the next quarter century. One of the better received volumes in the 'American Trail Series' Wallace Earle Stegner (1909-1993) was an American novelist, short story writer, environmentalist, and historian, often called 'The Dean of Western Writers'. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 and the U.S. National Book Award in 1977, and through his writing program at Stanford University, influenced generations of writers (Edward Abbey, Ken Kesey, Wendell Berry, Larry McMurtry). Colberg A 17.1.a.