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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific - Couverture souple

Utley, Robert M.

 
9780803295643: After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803295642 ISBN 13 : 9780803295643
Editeur : Bison Books, 2004

Synopsis

In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert M. Utley is a preeminent historian of the West and the author of numerous award-winning books, including The Last Days of the Sioux Nation; Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865 (Nebraska, 1981); Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend (Nebraska, 1998); and Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (Bison Books, 1991).

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803295642
ISBN 13 
9780803295643
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
426
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Personne responsable
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