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Life Wild and Perilous

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Title
Title: Life Wild and Perilous
Author: Utley, Robert M
ISBN: 9780805033045
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Published: 1997
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher Description:
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 in 1803-1805, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness of the American West. Collectively, they came to know every stream, mountain crag, canyon cataract, waterless stretch of plain, refuge of game, and Indian hideout.