Moontrap
By: by Don Berry ; introduction by Jeff Baker.
Edition: 1st OSU Press ed.
Publisher: Oregon State University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Corvallis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Married people -- Fiction.; Shoshoni women -- Fiction.; Fur trade -- Fiction.; Farm life -- Fiction.; Trappers -- Fiction.; Willamette River Valley (Or.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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."--Jacket.