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02356aam a2200301Mi 4500 001 9FB07C18383811EFBB58162234ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240702010121 008 240418t20242024meuab edb 000 0beng d 020 $a 1420513583 020 $a 9781420513585 035 $a (OCoLC)1434169126 040 $a AU@ $b eng $c AU@ $e rda $d OCLCO $d IMT $d SILO 100 1 $a Drury, Bob, $e author. 245 10 $a Throne of grace : $b a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West / $c Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a [Waterville, Maine] : $b Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, $c 2024. 300 $a 605 pages (large print) : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 565-601). 505 0 $a Prologue -- Part I: The hunter. "Enterprising young men" ; Astor's folly ; The horse and the gun ; Shipwreck ; Hivernants ; A bloodstained beach ; The Missouri legion -- Part II: The pass. Les mauvais terres ; Glass ; South Pass ; The survivor ; Dead men walking ; Flathead post ; "A sly, cunning Yankey" ; "Shetskedee" ; Guns along the Bear ; "Randavouze Creek" -- Part III: The odyssey. 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" -- Epilogue. 520 $a "It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. This is the setting of Throne of Grace, and the guide to this epic narrative is arguably America's greatest yet most unsung pathfinder, Jedediah Smith. His explorations 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, Throne of Grace is a gripping yarn that introduces one of the great explorers in American history"-- $c Back cover. 700 1 $a Clavin, Tom, $d 1954- $e author. 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. 941 $a 1 945 $a lpt 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240702013028.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9FB07C18383811EFBB58162234ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search