After Lewis and Clark

Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

By: Robert M. Utley

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Paperback | 1 November 2004

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In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colourful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea. Robert M. Utley, former chief historian for the National Park Service and a founder of the Western Historical Association, is the author of fifteen books on the Western frontier, including Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life and Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend, both available in Bison Books editions. After Lewis and Clark was originally published as A Life Wild and Perilous.

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"The definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier... Very readable and impressively detailed."oNew York Times Book Review. "[Utley's] narrative of the trappers is entrancingly delivered... A magnificent read."oBooklist. "From a veteran historian of the West, a fine account of early American explorers... A broad, vividly written work of historical reconstruction."oKirkus Reviews. "Reads like a well-spun novel."oWild West

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Colter and Drouillard : continental crossing	p. 1
Colter and Drouillard : mountain man prototypes	p. 11
Robinson, Hoback, and Reznor : doomed trio	p. 23
Jedediah Smith : atypical mountain man	p. 39
Jedediah Smith : South Pass and the Siskadee	p. 55
Etienne Provost : L'homme des montagnes	p. 69
Jedediah Smith : California, Oregon, and the Cimarron	p. 83
Ewing Young : Gila Trails to California	p. 103
Joe Walker : the Great Basin and the Sierras	p. 117
Bill Sublette : struggle of the fur giants	p. 131
Warren Ferris : trapper as cartographer	p. 149
Tom Fitzpatrick : missionaries to Oregon	p. 157
Jim Bridger : end of an era	p. 173
Kit Carson : mapping the way west	p. 185
Joe Meek and Doc Newell : trappers as colonists	p. 207
Kit Carson : Fremont's third expedition	p. 223
Kit Carson : the continent spanned	p. 241
Jim Bridger : filling in the map	p. 263
The maps	p. 287
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