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02919aim a22004215a 4500 001 44E20586940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231206010040 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 230206s2023 xxunnn es z n eng d 020 $a 9798765087633 028 42 $a MWT15503207 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Enzler, Jerry A., $d 1951- $e author. 245 10 $a Jim Bridger : $b trailblazer of the American West $h [electronic resource] / $c Jerry Enzler. 246 30 $a Trailblazer of the American West 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b Tantor Media, Inc., $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 41 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 $a Read by Danny Campbell. 520 $a Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time-and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud. Born in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he "discovered" the Great Salt Lake. In the following years, he led trapping brigades into Blackfeet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists, topographical engineers, and army leaders; and, though he could neither read nor write, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger's path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler's book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the "King of the Mountain Men." 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 $a Bridger, Jim, $d 1804-1881. 650 0 $a Frontier and pioneer life $z West (U.S.) 650 0 $a Scouts (Reconnaissance) $z West (U.S.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Trappers $z West (U.S.) $v Biography. 650 0 $a Pioneers $z West (U.S.) $v Biography. 700 1 $a Campbell, Danny. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15499387?utm_source=MARC $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9798765087633_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l GFPE771 $d 20231206012345.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=44E20586940511EE938C1F5A49ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search