The Splendid Wayfaring
Jedediah Smith and the Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831
With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the first explorer to recognize South Pass as the gateway to the Far West, the first overlander to reach California and travel up the coast to the Columbia River, and the first white man to cross the Sierra N…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8032-5723-8
- EAN: 9780803257238
- Produktnummer: 1787480
- Verlag: University of Nebraska Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1970
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H20.2 cm x B13.4 cm x D1.9 cm 318 g
- Abbildungen: Map
- Gewicht: 318
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Other works by John G. Neihardt, poet and chronicler of the American West, available in Bison Book editions include Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of the Oglala Sioux, The Mountain Men, and When the Tree Flowered.
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