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Throne of grace

a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West

Tom Clavin, (1954-)

"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse. This is the setting of this book, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it"--

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Title Statement	Throne of grace: a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West / [text (large print)] : Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.
Series	Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series
Author	Drury, Bob
Additional Contributors	Clavin, Tom,1954-
Publication	Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company,2024.
Edition	Large print edition.
Extent of Item	605 pages (large print), 18 unnumbered pages of plates
ISBN	9781420513585 (trade paperback)
Other Number	pr07692388
General Notes	Maps also on endpapers. Originally published in standard print format: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2024.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What strange beasts and natural formations can be found? Thus was the birth of Manifest Destiny and the resulting bloody battles with Indigenous tribes encountered by white explorers. Also in this volatile mix are the grizzled fur trappers and mountain men, waging war against the Native American tribes whose lands they traverse. This is the setting of this book, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations into the forested frontiers on both sides of the Rocky Mountains and all the way to the West Coast would become the stuff of legend. Thanks to painstaking research and riveting writing, the story of the making of modern America is told through the eyes of both the ordinary and memorable men and women, settlers and Indigenous, who witnessed it"--
By Topic	Explorers--Biography--West (U.S.)
	Fur trade--History--19th century--West (U.S.)
	Overland journeys to the Pacific
By Name	Smith, Jedediah Strong,1799-1831
By Location	West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration
By Location	West (U.S.)--History--To 1848
By Genre	Biographies
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	Personal narratives

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