The Splendid Wayfaring: The Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith andthe Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831

Neihardt, John G.

ISBN 10: 0803257236 / ISBN 13: 9780803257238

Published by Bison, 1973

About this Item

Some edge wear to the wraps. Minor tanning to the back cover. Otherwise a clean, unmarked copy.

Seller Inventory # 002791

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Splendid Wayfaring: The Exploits and Adventures of Jedediah Smith andthe Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831
• Publisher: Bison
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803257236
• ISBN 13: 9780803257238
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Northwest and Regional
  • American History
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

The Splendid Wayfaring follows in novelistic detail the history-making adventures of Smith and his companions.

With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River in the first fur-trading expedition of William H. Ashley and Andrew Henry, and ends in 1831, when he was killed by Comanche Indians on the Cimarron River. In the intervening years Smith became the first explorer to recognize South Pass as the gateway to the Far West, the first overlander to reach California and travel up the coast to the Columbia River, and the first white man to cross the Sierra Nevada and the Great Basin from west to east. 

About the Author

Other works by John G. Neihardt, poet and chronicler of the American West, available in Bison Book editions include Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of the Oglala Sioux, The Mountain Men, and When the Tree Flowered.