Terrible Trail: the Meek Cutoff, 1845.

Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers Ltd., 1968 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Second printing. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. 244 pp. Frontis plus 32 pages of photographs, 3 maps, bibliography, index, roster of names, endpaper maps. Brown cloth lettered in black. Library stamps on endpapers (no other library markings), else a very fine copy with dust jacket. Dust jacket price-clipped and the spine is lightly faded. A fine work detailing the families that followed Stephen Meek on his supposed shortcut across the Central Oregon desert and Cascades. They suffered more deaths than the Donner Party and their finding of gold gave rise to the Blue Bucket gold mystery. Includes a 70 page roster of names of the pioneers. .