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Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West  Cover Image Book Book

Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West / Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.

Drury, Bob, author. Clavin, Tom, 1954- author. 

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  • ISBN: 9781250285836
  • Physical Description: xii, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of 30 unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition: 2024.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
  • Note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  • Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-345) and index.
  • Formatted Contents: "Enterprising young men" -- Astor's folly -- The horse and the gun -- Shipwreck -- Hivernants -- A bloodstained beach -- The Missouri legion -- Les mauvais terres -- Hugh Glass -- South Pass -- The survivor -- Dead men walking -- Flathead post -- "A sly, cunning Yankey" -- "Shetskedee" -- Guns along the Bear -- "Randavouze Creek" -- Eastern stirrings -- "A country of starvation" -- A Spanish inquisition -- Dreams of cooling cascades -- Dueling warpaths -- Bloody Oregon -- Fort Vancouver -- "A throne of grace" -- The last trailhead -- "Where his bones are bleaching".
Subject: Smith, Jedediah Strong, 1799-1831.
Explorers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Fur trade > West (U.S.) > History > 19th century.
Overland journeys to the Pacific.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.


Available copies

  • 4 of 5 copies available at Consortium of Ohio Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Wilmington Public Library of Clinton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Wilmington Main Library 978.02 Drury (Text) 34300001481823 New Books Reshelving -


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