Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West
Drury, Bob2024
Large Print
It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse. This is the setting of Throne of Grace, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it. But it's Smith who drives the narrative with his trailblazing path through the unexplored terrain of the American West.
Main title:
Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Author:
Drury, Bob, authorClavin, Tom, 1954-, author
Work:
Edition:
Large print edition.
Imprint:
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2024.©2024
Collation:
605 pages (large print), 18 unnumbered pages of photographs : illustrations, map, photographs ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliography (pages 565-578) and notes (pages 579-601)
ISBN:
9781420513585
Dewey class:
978.02092978.02
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
475728