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A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
A Life Wild and Perilous Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific Author:Robert M. Utley Early in the 19th 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. The West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick and Jedediah Smith o... more »pened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness of the American West.« less