Beyond the Old Frontier, Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders
PREFACE TO-DAY the vast territory lying between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean is occupied by many millions of people. Fifty years ago, except on the Pacific slope, it had few white inhabitants. Then it was the Far West, beyond the frontier, the Indian country-the unknown. A journey into it was believed to be fuIl of peril. In the minds of the general public it was as far away as Central China is to-day. Beyond the great river which bounded it on the east was a fringe of settlements. Scattered through the more distant country were the trading-posts to which the trapper brought his furs. Forts Garry, Benton, Union, Laramie, Bridge…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4437-6835-1
- EAN: 9781443768351
- Produktnummer: 4221145
- Verlag: Girvin Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 420 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.4 cm 558 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 558
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GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL (1849-1938), was an influential American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Dedicated to the restoration of America's wildlands, he became a conservationist and student of Native American Life. Grinnell wrote many books, of which his best known are The Fighting Cheyennes, The Cheyenne Indians and When Buffalo Ran.
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