02011cam a2200313 4500 531136136 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780803245952 0803245955 B00B5KV9IQ Amazon 4c957fe0-9eff-4c18-9bb3-884e1c46ad6a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1219106 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Morgan, Dale L. Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West [Libby]. Bison Books, 2013. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3156kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<p>In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, "a wilderness," he wrote, "of two thousand miles diameter." During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, "the mild and Christian young man" blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.</p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4C957FE0-9EFF-4C18-9BB3-884E1C46AD6A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4C957FE0-9EFF-4C18-9BB3-884E1C46AD6A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4C957FE0-9EFF-4C18-9BB3-884E1C46AD6A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)