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"[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier." âJay P. Dolan,
The New York Times Book Review
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and tradersâsuch as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smithâopened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness.
These and other Mountain Men opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845â1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American handsâthus making the Pacific Ocean America's western boundary.
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and tradersâsuch as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smithâopened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness.
These and other Mountain Men opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845â1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American handsâthus making the Pacific Ocean America's western boundary.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Notice
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1. Colter and Drouillard: Continental Crossing
- 2. Colter and Drouillard: Mountain Man Prototypes
- 3. Robinson, Hoback, and Reznor: Doomed Trio
- 4. Jedediah Smith: Atypical Mountain Man
- 5. Jedediah Smith: South Pass and the Siskadee
- 6. Ătienne Provost: Lâhomme des montagnes
- 7. Jedediah Smith: California, Oregon, and the Cimarron
- 8. Ewing Young: Gila Trails to California
- 9. Joe Walker: The Great Basin and the Sierras
- 10. Bill Sublette: Struggle of the Fur Giants
- 11. Warren Ferris: Trapper as Cartographer
- 12. Tom Fitzpatrick: Missionaries to Oregon
- 13. Jim Bridger: End of an Era
- 14. Kit Carson: Mapping the Way West
- 15. Joe Meek and Doc Newell: Trappers as Colonists
- 16. Kit Carson: FrĂ©montâs Third Expedition
- 17. Kit Carson: The Continent Spanned
- 18. Jim Bridger: Filling in the Map
- The Maps, by Peter H. Dana
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Also by Robert M. Utley
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