Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West by Dale L Morgan
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.
“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 WestFew have attempted and one has achieved such a task.”—A. P. Nasatir, American History Review
“The chapters are alive with characters. . . . Dale Morgan is a scholar who knows how to write.”—J. Frank Dobie, New York Times
“A distinguished work of historical scholarship, based on an absolute command of the sources (including much unpublished material that has recently become accessible), well written, and notable for its analytical depth.”—H. N. Smith, New York Herald Tribune
“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
“This is the book on one of the true great men of his era.”—J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle
“The chapters are alive with characters. . . . Dale Morgan is a scholar who knows how to write.”—J. Frank Dobie, New York Times
“A distinguished work of historical scholarship, based on an absolute command of the sources (including much unpublished material that has recently become accessible), well written, and notable for its analytical depth.”—H. N. Smith, New York Herald Tribune
“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
“This is the book on one of the true great men of his era.”—J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle
Each volume is introduced by the distinguished historian Dale L. Morgan, whose shaping and elucidation of the material have produced a factual account as dramatic as any novel or movie. Included among other Morgan titles reprinted as Bison Books is Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803251380 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803251386 |
| Title | Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West |
| Author | Dale L Morgan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 1964-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 468 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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