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Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and
Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of
their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of
hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The
Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first
time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn - Ramsay
Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward
Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. These seven counted the
Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries. More
importantly, they forged the Oregon Trail-a path destined to link
the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as
it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and
gold-seekers westward. The Perilous West begins in 1806, when
Crooks and McClellan meet Lewis and Clark, and the vast expanse
from the Dakotas to the Pacific coast appears a commercial
paradise. The story ends in 1814, when a band of French Canadian
trappers rescue Marie Dorion, and even John Jacob Astor's
well-financed enterprise has ended in violence and chaos, placing
the protagonists squarely in the context of Thomas Jefferson's
monumental opening of the West, which stalled with the War of 1812.
Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and
Clark's safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of
their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of
hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The
Perilous West tells this riveting story in depth for the first
time, focusing on each of the seven explorers in turn - Ramsay
Crooks, Robert McClellan, John Hoback, Jacob Reznor, Edward
Robinson, Pierre Dorion, and Marie Dorion. These seven counted the
Tetons, Hells Canyon, and South Pass among their discoveries. More
importantly, they forged the Oregon Trail-a path destined to link
the Atlantic coast with the Pacific, spurring national expansion as
it carried trappers, soldiers, pioneers, missionaries, and
gold-seekers westward. The Perilous West begins in 1806, when
Crooks and McClellan meet Lewis and Clark, and the vast expanse
from the Dakotas to the Pacific coast appears a commercial
paradise. The story ends in 1814, when a band of French Canadian
trappers rescue Marie Dorion, and even John Jacob Astor's
well-financed enterprise has ended in violence and chaos, placing
the protagonists squarely in the context of Thomas Jefferson's
monumental opening of the West, which stalled with the War of 1812.
A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents the first
extensive study of the primary sources chronicling the origin of
the long-ridiculed narrative that has now been reprinted more than
one hundred and eighty million times in one hundred and ten
languages. The scores of documents transcribed and annotated in A
Documentary History include family histories, journal entries,
letters, affidavits, reminiscences, interviews, newspaper articles,
and book extracts, as well as revelations dictated in the name of
God. These texts tell the captivating story of what happened (and
what was believed or rumored to have happened) between September
1823 - when the seventeen-year-old farm boy Joseph Smith announced
that an angel of God had directed him to an ancient book inscribed
on gold plates - and March 1830, when the Book of Mormon was first
published. From the late 1820s to the present, the controversy - as
well as the curiosity - has never ceased. By bringing together for
the first time a substantial compilation of both first- and
secondhand accounts relevant to the inception of the divine
revelation - or clever fraud - that launched a new world religion,
A Documentary History makes a highly significant contribution to
the rapidly growing field of Mormon Studies.
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