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03401aam a2200517 i 4500 001 A1C33C500DC911EF973F313347ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240509010027 008 240130s2024 nyuab b 000 0beng 010 $a 2023058019 020 $a 1250285836 020 $a 9781250285836 035 $a (OCoLC)1420157666 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d TnLvILS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-usp-- 050 00 $a F592.S649 $b D78 2024 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20240206 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 First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 1 volume : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a "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." 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 7 $a Explorers $v Biography. $2 Sears 650 7 $a Fur trade $z West (U.S.) $x History. $2 Sears 650 7 $a Overland journeys to the Pacific. $2 Sears 651 7 $a West (U.S.) $x Exploration. $2 Sears 651 7 $a West (U.S.) $x History. $2 Sears 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Clavin, Tom, $d 1954- $e author. 941 $a 11 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702030012.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20240611032754.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20240611031506.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240611031219.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20240604012635.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240604011355.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20240604010933.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240524011631.0 952 $l ZLPD437 $d 20240523185158.0 952 $l ZKPC437 $d 20240516021359.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013813.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A1C33C500DC911EF973F313347ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search