A Life Wild And Perilous
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A Life Wild and Perilous
Author | : Robert M. Utley |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 557 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1627798838 |
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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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