Jedediah Smith And The Mountain Men Of The American West
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Jedediah Smith And The Mountain Men Of The American West
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Author : John Logan Allen
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Jedediah Smith And The Mountain Men Of The American West written by John Logan Allen and has been published by Chelsea House Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Chronicles the exploits of the mountain men who opened many trails and passages through the American West in the early nineteenth century.
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Author : Charles W. Maynard
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2002-12-15
Jedediah Smith written by Charles W. Maynard and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Follows the life of the nineteenth-century trapper and explorer who earned his reputation on the western frontier.
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Author : Barton H. Barbour
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-09-10
Jedediah Smith written by Barton H. Barbour and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Mountain man and fur trader Jedediah Smith casts a heroic shadow. He was the first Anglo-American to travel overland to California via the Southwest, and he roamed through more of the West than anyone else of his era. His adventures quickly became the stuff of legend. Using new information and sifting fact from folklore, Barton H. Barbour now offers a fresh look at this dynamic figure. Barbour tells how a youthful Smith was influenced by notable men who were his family’s neighbors, including a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he was twenty-three, hard times leavened with wanderlust set him on the road west. Barbour delves into Smith’s journals to a greater extent than previous scholars and teases out compelling insights into the trader’s itineraries and personality. Use of an important letter Smith wrote late in life deepens the author’s perspective on the legendary trapper. Through Smith’s own voice, this larger-than-life hero is shown to be a man concerned with business obligations and his comrades’ welfare, and even a person who yearned for his childhood. Barbour also takes a hard look at Smith’s views of American Indians, Mexicans in California, and Hudson’s Bay Company competitors and evaluates his dealings with these groups in the fur trade. Dozens of monuments commemorate Smith today. This readable book is another, giving modern readers new insight into the character and remarkable achievements of one of the West’s most complex characters.
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Author : Charles W. Maynard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
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Author : Sharlene P. Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jedediah Smith written by Sharlene P. Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Explorers categories.
Discusses the life and work of Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West and leader of mountain men. Born in 1799, Jedediah Smith became an important explorer of the American West. He was the first American to cross the Sierra Nevadas and the Great Basin and the first American to reach California by an overland route. As a fur trader, he was considered a leader of the mountain men. His expeditions helped open the West to thousands of emigrants, changing the shape of the United States.
Jedediah Smith And The Opening Of The West
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Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1969-01-01
Jedediah Smith And The Opening Of The West written by Dale Lowell Morgan and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969-01-01 with History categories.
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.
Jedediah Smith
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Author : Win Blevins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-13
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Into the uncharted West came the mountain men. They were French Canadians, Blacks, and Whites who left society and conventions behind. They all wanted to see a vast, unknown landscape. An earth that roiled and bubbled and erupted even when the skies were snow-filled. Powerful rivers that sculpted the land. An ocean that was wild with promise and mystery. The most complicated, and enigmatic, of these mountain men is Jedediah Smith. Smith is driven by a passion: He wants to walk every step of the unexplored American West. He wants to lead the way, to go where no white man has gone before. Smith wants to map all of it and publish his maps so others can see what awaits them. He wants to walk in a world where religion and family doesn't tie him down, but he reads the Bible every day and writes home often. His heart is filled with the call of the wild. In this biography Win Blevins gives Jedediah's adventures the drama and passion of a novel. He uses Jedediah's own point of view to tell the story from his first venture into the west, to his discovery of the pass over the Rocky Mountains, to his crossing great deserts to reach California, to his journey to Oregon and back to the Rockies. In the end Blevins takes the reader, breathless, to Smith's last moments. A great reading adventure! REVIEWS "It was an epic time, which lasted hardly more than a third of a century before civilization swarmed west on trails the mountain men had blazed. Now Blevins sees they are paid the awed honor that is due them, in a book which has the drama and suspense of a novel." ―Los Angeles Times "No one since the great A. B. Guthrie, Jr., has a better feel for the world of the mountain man." ―Don Coldsmith "For the lover of the early West, it is good entertainment... with lots of color, suspense and excitement." ―The Denver Post "Win Blevins is an American author of fiction and non-fiction. He has written many books about the western mountain trappers, and is known for his "mastery of western lore." -- Publisher's Weekly "Not since Frederick Manfred's 'Lord Grizzly' and Vardis Fisher's 'Mountain Man' has there been so gripping, authentic, and captivating a story of the men who matched the mountains of the Great American West. Win Blevins has long since won his place among the West's very best."- Tony Hillerman .
The Mountain Men
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Author : George Laycock
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2023-09-21
The Mountain Men written by George Laycock and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with History categories.
To know how the West was really won, start with the exploits of these unsung mountain men who, like the legendary Jeremiah Johnson, were real buckskin survivalists. Preceded only by Lewis and Clark, beaver fur trappers roamed the river valleys and mountain ranges of the West, living on fish and game, fighting or trading with the Native Americans, and forever heading toward the untamed wilderness. In this story of rough, heroic men and their worlds, Laycock weaves historical facts and practical instruction with profiles of individual trappers, including harrowing escapes, feats of supreme courage and endurance, and sometimes violent encounters with grizzly bears and Native Americans.
A Life Wild And Perilous
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Author : Robert M. Utley
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-09-15
A Life Wild And Perilous written by Robert M. Utley and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders--Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Jedediah Smith--opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. They opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845-1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands, the Pacific Ocean becoming our western boundary.
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Author : Sharlene Nelson
language : en
Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
Release Date : 2004
Jedediah Smith written by Sharlene Nelson and has been published by Children's Press(CT) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Discusses the life and work of Jedediah Smith, an explorer of the American West and leader of mountain men.