Splendid Wayfaring

Jedediah Smith and the Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831

Autor: John G. Neihardt

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Väzba: Brožovaná

Vydavateľ: University of Nebraska Press

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"An American prose epic; an absorbing tale of courage and endurance."--New York Evening Post. "Neiha...

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Autor

John G. Neihardt

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydalo

1990

Stránok

290

EAN

9780803257238

ISBN

0803257236

Enbook ID

04923501

Vydavateľ

University of Nebraska Press

Hmotnosť

363

Rozmery

133 x 203 x 19

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"An American prose epic; an absorbing tale of courage and endurance."--New York Evening Post. "Neihardt gives unity and verve to his volume by making [Jedediah] Smith the central spirit; but it is in a truly epic mode that the story is conceived, and hence there could not be less than a picturesque emphasis upon the companions of the hero, among them Ashley and Henry, builders of the fur industry and the trapper Hugh Glass."--Bookman. "One of the most truly dramatic themes in American history."--Review of Reviews. "One of the first biographies of Smith and still among the best written."--Don Russell, Westerners Brand Book 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 Nevada and the Great Basin from west to east. The Splendid Wayfaring follows in novelistic detail the history-making adventures of Smith and his companions. 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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