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Jim Bridger – Mountain Man, Stanley Vestal
Jim Bridger was born at the right time–in the spring of 1804, the very year and season when Lewis & Clark set out up the Missouri River to traverse the Rocky Mountains which he was to explore so thoroughly.
“A painstaking job of research among the usual Bridger sources and among some others which have been neglected…Stanley Vestal has adequately set the scene for his hero’s adventures and had honestly appraised the great guide’s historical stature.” -The New York Times
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Jim Bridger – Mountain Man, Stanley Vestal
Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink, By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific. One of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he was a legend in his own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5720-7
333 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 8″
University of Nebraska Press, 1970