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DescriptionJoseph Lafayette Meek.jpg	English: "Joseph L. Meek," black and white photographic portrait by Joseph Buchtel & John Chester Buttre. Engraved frontispiece to the volume entitled The River of the West: Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Oregon, published by the Columbian Book Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1870. Courtesy of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Date	1870
Source	Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University; OID 2000251
Author	Joseph Buchtel; John Chester Buttre
Other versions	PNG DjVu of 1974 reprint of 1870 original print DjVu of National Central Library of Florence 1870 print DjVu of Brigham Young University 1871 print

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	10:16, 16 April 2011	984 × 1,536 (152 KB)	MarmadukePercy (talk \| contribs)	{{Information \|Description ={{en\|1="Joseph L. Meek," black and white photographic portrait by Joseph Buchtel & John Chester Buttre. Engraved frontispiece to the volume entitled "The River of the West, Life and Adventure in the Rocky Mountains and Orego