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Broken Hand : the life of Thomas Fitzpatrick: mountain man, guide, and Indian agent /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hafen, LeRoy R. (LeRoy Reuben), 1893-1985
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denver, Colo. : Old West Publishing Company, [1973]
Edition:[1st rev. ed., deluxe ed.].
Subjects:
Fitzpatrick, Thomas, > 1799-1854.
Frontier and pioneer life > West (U.S.)
West (U.S.) > History > To 1848.
Frontier and pioneer life.
United States, West.
To 1848
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Up the Missouri and the Arikana fight, 1823
  • Over South Pass and in Green River Valley, 1824
  • Ashley and the rendezvous, 1825-26
  • Smith, Jackson and Sublette, 1926-30
  • Head of Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 1830
  • Fitzpatrick's perilous ride, 1832
  • Passing of Rocky Mountain Fur Company, 1832-34
  • Last years as mountain man, 1835-40
  • Piloting the first emigrants, 1841-42
  • Guide and adjutant, 1843-44
  • With Kearny and Abert, 1845
  • THe Army of the West, 1846
  • Ambassador to the Plains tribes, 1847-48
  • Peace plans for the frontier, 1849-50
  • The Great Indian Council, 1851
  • The closing years, 1852-54.