Articles liés à Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West

Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West - Couverture souple

Morgan, Dale L.

 
9780803251380: Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803251386 ISBN 13 : 9780803251380
Editeur : Bison Books, 1964

Synopsis

"This is the book on one of the true great men of his era."--J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle

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 of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
1964
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803251386
ISBN 13 
9780803251380
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
472
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible