Large 8vo. 233pp. Notes; Index. Map. Illustrations by Howard Simon. Red cloth with gilt lettering in illustrated dustjacket. Small owner label else fine in fine dustjacket.(with minor agetoning). The first full-length biography of Jedediah Smith, the greatest of the trail breakers of his period. A giant among men, he was discoverer of the central route from the Rockies to the Pacific; leaders of the party which made effective discovery of the South Pass; the first white man to cross Nevada; the first to traverse Utah from north to south, and from west to east; the first American to enter California by the overland route; the first white man to conquer the Hight Sierras and the first to explore the Pacific Slope from San Diego to Vancouver.

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Title

Jedediah Smith: Trader & Trailbreaker

Publisher

Press of the Pioneers, New York

Publication Date

1936

Edition

First Edition.

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Western Americana

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