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Jim Bridger - Mountain Man (Paperback)
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Jim Bridger - Mountain Man (Paperback)
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List price R553
Loot Price R469
Discovery Miles 4 690
You Save R84 (15%)
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Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering
figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in
American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he
had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat
flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was
only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to
open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage,
the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific. One of the foremost
trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he was a legend in his
own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important
scouts and guides in the history of the West. The Christian Science
Monitor has called this biography "probably the fairest portrait of
Jim Bridger in existence." The New York Times has praise for a
"painstaking job of research among the usual Bridger sources and
among some others which have been neglected. . . . [The author] has
adequately set the scene for his hero's adventures and has honestly
appraised the great guide's historical stature."Other Bison Books
by Stanley Vestal: Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns, Joe Meek: The
Merry MOuntain Man; The Missouri, The Old Santa Fe Trail, and
Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography
of Chief White Bull
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