The Long Rifle Author:White, Stewart Edward Dell Book D147, 1st printing (assumed), 1955, Good — Here is the drama that has made America, the beginning of the Great Westward movement. It is the story of the men who broke the trial to the unknown country, the explorers who crossed the ranges and forded the rivers, found the passes and the valleys - the mountain men. — It is the story of one... more » of those mountain men, Andy Burnett, whose urge to seek out the new country led him into the wilderness, carrying Daniels Boone's own long rifle, to make his way with the fur trappers across the plains and the Great Divide, eventually to the far side of the Sierra and down the Western shore itself.« less