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Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West

Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West

Drury, Bob, author.
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"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes...

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Explore Topics & Themes:
Explorers West (U.S.) Biography
Fur trade West (U.S.) History 19th century
Overland journeys to the Pacific
Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831
West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration
West (U.S.) History To 1848
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ISBN:
9781250285836 (hardcover)
9781250285836
Edition:
First edition
Description:
xii, 355 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 25 cm
Notes:
Maps also on endpapers
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
"Enterprising young men"
Astor's folly
The horse and the gun
Shipwreck
Hivernants
A bloodstained beach
The Missouri legion
Les mauvais terres
Glass
South Pass
The survivor
Dead men walking
Flathead post
"A sly, cunning Yankey"
"Shetskedee"
Guns along the Bear
"Randavouze Creek"
Eastern stirrings
"A country of starvation"
A Spanish inquisition
Dreams of cooling cascades
Dueling warpaths
Bloody Oregon
Fort Vancouver
"A throne of grace"
The last trailhead
"Where his bones are bleaching."
LCCN:
2023058019
Control Number:
3303663
Other Authors:
Clavin, Tom, 1954- author
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