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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West - (Bison Book S) by Dale L Morgan (Paperback)

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  • "This is the book on one of the true great men of his era.
  • Author(s): Dale L Morgan
  • 472 Pages
  • History, United States
  • Series Name: Bison Book S

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"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.



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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 none has achieved such a task. - A.P. Nasatir, American History Review.



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"A distinguished work of historical scholarship, based on an absolute command of the sources (including much unpublished material that has recently become accessible), well written, and notable for its analytical depth."--H. N. Smith, New York Herald Tribune

"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. Nasatir, American History Review

"Mr. Morgan has tracked down every scrap of information about Smith . . . and has done a full-scale reconstruction of a commanding figure and a period of great ferment and vitiality."--New Yorker

"The chapters are alive with characters. . . . Dale Morgan is a scholar who knows how to write."--J. Frank Dobie, New York Times

"This is the book on one of the true great men of his era."--J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle
Dimensions (Overall): 7.9 Inches (H) x 5.3 Inches (W) x 1.0 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.15 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 472
Series Title: Bison Book S
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Bison Books
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Dale L Morgan
Language: English
Street Date: June 1, 1964
TCIN: 88970178
UPC: 9780803251380
Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-2093
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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