The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers - Couverture souple

Neihardt, John G.

 
9780803257238: The Splendid Wayfaring: The Story of the Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith and His Comrades, the Ashley-Henry Men, Discoverers and Explorers
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ISBN 10 : 0803257236 ISBN 13 : 9780803257238
Editeur : Bison Books, 1970

Synopsis

The Splendid Wayfaring follows in novelistic detail the history-making adventures of Smith and his companions.

With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the first explorer to recognize South Pass as the gateway to the Far West, the first overlander to reach California and travel up the coast to the Columbia River, and the first white man to cross the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin from west to east.

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À propos de l?auteur

Other works by John G. Neihardt, poet and chronicler of the American West, available in Bison Book editions include Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of the Oglala Sioux, The Mountain Men, and When the Tree Flowered.

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
1970
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803257236
ISBN 13 
9780803257238
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
290
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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