A Life Wild and Perilous
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A Life Wild and Perilous

Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

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A Life Wild and Perilous

Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

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Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders--Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Jedediah Smith--opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. They opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845-1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands, the Pacific Ocean becoming our western boundary.

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Publisher
Holt Paperbacks
Year
2015
ISBN
9781627798839
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Colter and Drouillard: Continental Crossing
  8. 2. Colter and Drouillard: Mountain Man Prototypes
  9. 3. Robinson, Hoback, and Reznor: Doomed Trio
  10. 4. Jedediah Smith: Atypical Mountain Man
  11. 5. Jedediah Smith: South Pass and the Siskadee
  12. 6. Étienne Provost: L’homme des montagnes
  13. 7. Jedediah Smith: California, Oregon, and the Cimarron
  14. 8. Ewing Young: Gila Trails to California
  15. 9. Joe Walker: The Great Basin and the Sierras
  16. 10. Bill Sublette: Struggle of the Fur Giants
  17. 11. Warren Ferris: Trapper as Cartographer
  18. 12. Tom Fitzpatrick: Missionaries to Oregon
  19. 13. Jim Bridger: End of an Era
  20. 14. Kit Carson: Mapping the Way West
  21. 15. Joe Meek and Doc Newell: Trappers as Colonists
  22. 16. Kit Carson: FrĂ©mont’s Third Expedition
  23. 17. Kit Carson: The Continent Spanned
  24. 18. Jim Bridger: Filling in the Map
  25. The Maps, by Peter H. Dana
  26. Acknowledgments
  27. Sources
  28. Notes
  29. Index
  30. About the Author
  31. Also by Robert M. Utley
  32. Newsletter Sign-up
  33. Contents
  34. Copyright