A Life Wild and Perilous
Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
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About A Life Wild and Perilous
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West exted the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders--Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Jedediah Smith--opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. They opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845-1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ed with the Southwest and California in American hands, the Pacific Ocean becoming our western boundary.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 10.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Standard-length read
- Best for
- Readers seeking mountain men nonfiction
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A Life Wild and Perilous by Robert M. Utley, published in 1998, is a 427-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Mountain Men Nonfiction.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-805-05989-2
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 427
