G/F, used hc, vi-xiii, 359pp. Blue cloth over boards with gilt text on spine; slight edge wear. Illustrated dust jacket with blue and black colored text on upper and blue text on spine; missing small pieces of paper on head and tail of upper; 2" tear at head of lower at spine; 3"x2" piece missing at tail of lower; encased in protective mylar wrapper. Interior pages have underlining and notations and former owner's name stamp on ffep. Binding is straight and tight. This is a good reading copy.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent
Publisher: The Old West Publishing Company, Denver, Colorado
Publication Date: 1973
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0912094176
ISBN 13: 9780912094175
Binding: Hardcover
Illustrator: Photographs
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Fair

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Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the most colorful of mountain men, Fitzpatrick was also party to many of the most important events in the opening of the West. LeRoy R. Hafen was the author of more than forty books on the American West.

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LeRoy R. Hafen was the author of more than forty books on the American West.

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