Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Libro-e, 2013) [Hayden Memorial Library @ Citrus College]
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

Autor: Dale L Morgan
Editorial: Lincoln : UNP - Bison Books, 2013.
Serie: A Bison book, BB184
Edición/Formato:  Libro-e : Documento : Inglés (eng)Ver todas las ediciones y todos los formatos
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In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, "a wilderness," he wrote, "of two thousand miles diameter." During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, "the mild and Christian young man" blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length  Leer más
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Género/Forma: Electronic books
Formato físico adicional: Print version:
Morgan, Dale L.
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West.
Lincoln : UNP - Bison Books, ©2013
Persona designada: Jedediah Strong Smith; Jedediah Strong Smith
Tipo de material: Documento, Recurso en Internet
Tipo de documento Recurso internet, Archivo de computadora
Todos autores / colaboradores: Dale L Morgan
ISBN: 9780803245952 0803245955
Número OCLC: 827210439
Descripción: 1 online resource
Contenido: Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; 1. Young Man of Enterprise; 2. The Hunters and the Hunted; 3. The Missouri Legion; 4. South Pass; 5. The Adventures of Hugh Glass-and Others; 6. The Stakes of the Columbia; 7. Action on the Fur Frontier; 8. Rendezvous: 1825; 9. Partner in the Fur Trade; 10. The South West Expedition; 11. Rendezvous: 1827; 12. The California Quagmire; 13. The Umpqua Massacre; 14. "Good, Merchantable Beaver Furr"; 15. The Things of Time; Appendix A; Appendix B; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index.
Título de la serie: A Bison book, BB184
Responsabilidad: Dale L. Morgan.

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In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, "a wilderness," he wrote, "of two thousand miles diameter." During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, "the mild and Christian young man" blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands.

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"A scholarly and well written volume of Jedediah Smith, which may well serve as a base for a complete history of the fur trade of the West. Few have attempted and one has achieved such a task."-A. P. Leer más

 
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