Pacific Destiny: The Three-Century Journey to the Oregon Country

Forge Books, 2002-06-29. Paperback. Good. 5x1x9. Signed by Author. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Clean text, tight binding, author's inscription on half-title page with sticky note message to Bill Gulick, sticky notes throughout along with Gulick's sparse notation. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 478 p. Tom Doherty Associates Book. Audience: General/trade. This book was part of Bill Gulick's personal library. It is signed to him by Dale Walker. Association Copy: Bill Gulick, a University of Oklahoma graduate, began his career writing for the Saturday Evening Post with a story about the Oregon Trail. He later went on to turn the story into the novel, Hallelujah Trail. The story was picked up by Hollywood along with two more of his stories, Bend of the River and Road to Denver. After nine months in Greenwich Village ( 43-44), he married Jeanne Abbot and began writing for Liberty, Colliers, and Esquire along with The Saturday Evening Post. It was shortly after the success of Bend of the River that Jeanne and Bill moved to Walla Walla, WA, where Bill still lives, though Jeanne passed on in 2001. After 64 years as a writer, Bill has 35 books to his credit; 28 of which are novels. Almost the entirety of his work encompasses the Northwest. He is a close friend of David Cosby, owner of Earthlight Books, who has inherited a large amount of his personal library and made it available online.