Throne of grace : a mountain man, an epic adventure, and the bloody conquest of the American West /
"The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President T...
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.