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Jim Bridger - Trailblazer of the American West (Paperback)
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Jim Bridger - Trailblazer of the American West (Paperback)
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Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. FrEmont, Kit Carson,
and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the
American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of
exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures
are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to
tell. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize
character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full
measure for the first time-and tells a story that would do Jim
Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made
his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River
with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver.
At twenty he "discovered" the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was
the first to paddle the Bighorn River's Bad Pass. At twenty-two he
explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years, he led
trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of
Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders;
and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal
boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts
Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the
route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud
and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the
Flathead, Ute, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children.
Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last
documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama
and details of the larger-than-life history of the "King of the
Mountain Men." This is the definitive story of an extraordinary
life.
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